In an article published in The Guardian, the British newspaper, well known writer, Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, observes that not much fiction is written about climate change which is threatening our planet. For him this lacunae reflects a crisis of culture and imagination which is reflected in our inability to come to terms with climate change and deal with decisively, if failed attempts to reach an agreement at COP. For Ghosh, this crisis of climate change is also reflected in lack of literary scholarship. I argue that there is sufficient literary fiction in the form of science fiction and other forms which actually depicts planet earth in various apocalyptic climatic conditions. Such depictions of earth and its inhabitants affected by climate change are not just some alarmist hallucinatory imaginations. ‘Cli-fi’ novels, as they popularly came to be called in the recent years, provide imaginative accounts of life affected by climate change, which are more convincing than hard facts of science. Such fictions actually work to counter the myth that climate change is not real.

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