Abstract:

Climate fiction novels, especially since the second half of the 20th century, have been defined as a genre as well as being evaluated within genres such as science fiction and dystopia. Climate fiction has important potential to raise awareness of climate change, to convey the devastating effects of global warming and changes that we are not aware of. The study has primarily focused on what climate fiction means as a concept, its relationship with other genres, its boundaries and diversity, and examined Kurbağa Adası and Köpekli Çocuklar Gecesi with comparative method, based on the themes attributed to this genre. Climate fiction works make inferences for the near future while revealing the consequences of climate change and global warming. While Kurbağa Adası by Selim Erdogan draws attention to the subject with reference to Istanbul, Oya Baydar performs the same function on a global scale in Köpekli Çocuklar Gecesi. The fact that the works were written in 2019 is a sign that they look from the same perspective. Our aim is to explore how climate change is framed in these novels, to explore themes that provide templates for describing climate change as a lived experience, to identify and understand the expectations underlying future scenarios.

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