''This is why the most interesting literary work that addresses the Anthrocene and its attendant crises is emerging from speculative (rather than realistic) genres: cli-fi and sci-fi. ''

''This is why the most interesting literary work that addresses the Anthrocene and its attendant crises is emerging from speculative (rather than realistic) genres: cli-fi and sci-fi. 

''Speculative genres provide a means to think beyond the constraints of what we have inherited as “reasonable” — they reveal the fragility and contingency of such reasonableness, gesturing instead toward seemingly unreasonable alternatives that we desperately need.''