Climate fiction, or climate change fiction, popularly abbreviated as cli-fi (modelled after the assonance of "sci-fi") is a term describing a growing body of fiction literature that deals with climate change and global warming. Not necessarily speculative in nature, works of cli-fi may take place in the world as we know it or in the near future. University courses on literature and environmental issues may include climate change fiction in their syllabi. This body of literature has been discussed by a variety of literary critics and journalists from around the world, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood, among others.