(Re)Imagining the Anthropocene: Narrative Strategies and Systemic Critique in the Climate Fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson and Amitav Ghosh

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Analysis reveals how cli-fi shapes agency in the Anthropocene, highlighting systemic critique and radical incrementalism.

Climate fiction challenges traditional narratives by promoting a politics of possibility amid climate change.
Robinson's work literalizes critiques of extractive capitalism through techno-utopian concepts like carbon coins.
Ghosh's narratives dismantle Eurocentric environmentalism, favoring Indigenous cosmologies and subaltern histories.
Both authors advocate for alternatives to neoliberal green washing, advocating for a redefined relationship with crisis.

Gupta et al. (2025) studied this question.

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