Cli-Fi: A Companion by Adam Trexler
Published 2020 · 88,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Cli-Fi: A Companion to read?
Cli-Fi: A Companion scores 61 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- Ecocritical and genre-theory vocabulary, accessible with definitions provided.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Theoretical claims about form and politics grounded in textual analysis.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with argument and literary example throughout.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Direct critical argument.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Analytical.
- Ironic distance: 14 out of 100
- Measured academic register with occasional urgency.
- Resolution withholding: 18 out of 100
- Leaves the question of fiction's political efficacy deliberately open.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Thematically organized multi-author collection with editorial framing.
How Cli-Fi: A Companion is regarded
Cli-Fi: A Companion holds a literary regard score of 70 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.