I can’t quite recall when I first read or heard the term “global warming,” or its successor, “climate change.” I can only tell you that it has permeated my fiction since I started writing in the 1980s. Even then, I took it as a given that human-created climate change had overtaken us, and that any future I wrote about must in some way grapple with the issue. But the term “climate fiction” didn’t yet exist—at least not in any widely used form.
