Unlike the Han people, who have traditionally preferred to bury their dead at times and in locations they consider auspicious, when a Sirayan died his or her body was first preserved by smoking, the buried under the floor of the family home.

Mercy me! Look at the state of you!

'You're certainly a cut above wenchdom, even if your taste in men is execrable.

The issue is so pressing that some have started to use the term “cli-fi” for climate fiction — but this faddish coinage obscures a longer history of sf’s engagement with the environment and leaves unexamined the question of why sf has proven such a valuable genre for thinking about environmental futures.]