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Axel Goodbody is Emeritus Professor of German and European Culture at the University of Bath. He has published widely on literary representations of nature and environment and on ecocritical theory. He was a founding member of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment and its President from 2004 to 2006. Current projects include editing a special issue of Resilience on literary and historical stories of energy and co-authoring a transnational ecocritical analysis of climate change scepticism. Adeline Johns-Putra is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her main research interest is climate change and literature. She was Chair of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland from 2011 to 2015. Her monograph Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel and edited volume Climate and Literature are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the editorial board of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.

• CONTENTS: Jim Clarke: J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962) – Psycho-Geographical Cli-Fi – Thomas H. Ford: Max Frisch’s Man in the Holocene (1980) – Geological Cli-Fi – Mark Anderson: Ignacio Brandão’s And Still the Earth (1981) – Political Cli-Fi – Thomas H. Ford: George Turner’s The Sea and Summer (1987) – Urban Dystopian Cli-Fi – Dana Phillips: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003–2013) – Post-Apocalyptic Cli-Fi – M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos: Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) – Biopunk Cli-Fi – Antonia Mehnert: Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming (2009) – Riskscape Cli-Fi – Axel Goodbody: Ilija Trojanow’s The Lamentations of Zeno (2011/2016) – Prophetic Cli-Fi – Kiu-Wai Chu: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2014) – Adventure Cli-Fi – Stef Craps: Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter (2011) – Psychic Cli-Fi – Adeline Johns-Putra: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004) – State of the Nation Cli-Fi – Adam Trexler: T. C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2000) – Activism in Cli-Fi – Chris Pak: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capitol Trilogy (2004–2007) – Science and Politics in Cli-Fi – Sylvia Mayer: Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour (2012) – Class and Religion in Cli-Fi – Hannes Bergthaller: Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow (2013) – Risk and Rationality in Cli-Fi – Alexa Weik von Mossner: Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid (2009) – Documentary Cli-Fi – Alexa Weik von Mossner: Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – Apocalyptic Cli-Fi – Greg Garrard: Michael Crichton’s State of Fear (2004) – Denialist Cli-Fi – Terry Gifford: Liz Jensen’s The Rapture (2009) – Thriller Cli-Fi – Bradon Smith: Will Self ’s The Book of Dave (2006) – Satirical Cli-Fi – Richard Kerridge: Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) – British Comic Cli-Fi – Lieven Ameel: Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer (2013) – Nordic Crime Cli-Fi – David Whitley: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s Frozen (2013) – Fantasy Cli-Fi – Reinhard Hennig: Jostein Gaarder’s The World According to Anna (2013/2015) – Didactic Cli-Fi – Sina Farzin: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2008) – Coming-of-Age Cli-Fi – Ursula K. Heise: David Brin’s Earth (1990) – Epic Cli-Fi – Bradon Smith: David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (2014) – Genre Pluralism in Cli-Fi – Louise Squire: Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) – Postmodern Cli-Fi – Iva Polak: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) – Indigenous Cli-Fi.