New Statesman: When the Paris UN Climate Change Conference begins at the end of November, the world's leaders will review the climate framework agreed in Rio in 1992. For well over 20 years, the world has not just been thinking and talking about climate change, it has also been writing and reading about it, in blogs, newspapers, magazines - and in novels.
Climate change fiction is now a recognisable literary phenomenon replete with its own nickname: "cli-fi". The term was coined in 2007 by Taiwan-based blogger...