From Speculation to Reality: Climate Fiction in a Time of Crisis.

Once seen as the realm of speculative fiction, climate fiction—or "cli-fi"—now feels uncomfortably close to lived experience. Through vivid storytelling and urgent imagination, these writers explore how we survive, adapt, and bear witness in a world increasingly shaped by upheaval. 

Our three guests explore and reflect on the normalisation of crises in the 2020s in different ways. The volatile climate change that causes the epidemic of migraines in Sam Fisher's novel, Migraine, offers plausibility; Daisy Hildyard's novel, Emergency, is set amid the shifting crises of the environment and the Covid pandemic; and the breaking of the Indus water treatise that Gurnaik Johal speculated in Saraswati happened in real life just as the novel was published.