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Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky was awarded a best original screenplay award for his movie “Noah” at a new climate-themed movie awards program called the Cli Fi Movie Awards, dubbed “The Cliffies.” Aronofsky’s writing partner Ari Handel co-wrote the screenplay and received the award as well. He also won the best director nod for the movie […]

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Hollywood has a calendar full of movie and TV awards shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, and with a dozen other awards on tap as well. There’s even the Razzies — The Golden Raspberry Awards– for the worst movies in each year’s hefty bag of cinema surprises. Now a curtain is about to […]

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Sci-fi has had a long run as a modern literary genre, and it’s been fun, far-reaching and mind-expanding. Not to mention spacy, too. And clocks that strike “13″ and trips to Mars and beyond. I grew up on sci-fi and I love it. Books and movies, short stories, too. Long live, sci-fi. Oh, and did [...]

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If you start browsing the Web for ebooks and novels about climate change issues, within minutes you will come upon the webzine Clifibooks.com, which has “Cli-fi lists” for dozens of climate-themed ebooks and novels, with a submit button promising the addition of more cli fi novels listed there in the future. The website is the [...]

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By Dan Bloom TAIPEI — In a recent Guardian commentary published in late May, British writer Rodge Glass issued a “global warning” about what he termed “the rise of ’cli-fi’” — noting that ”unlike most science fiction, novels about climate change focus on an immediate and intense threat rather than discovery.” His piece about the rise of cli-fi as [...]

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By Dan Bloom A little more than a year ago, I wrote a piece for TeleRead that was headlined, ‘‘Cli-fi ebook to launch on Earth Day in April.” The article was about a cli-fi novel by Tulsa writer Jim Laughter titled Polar City Red, which I produced and packaged from far away in Taiwan—although every [...]

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