petrofiction

The story

1. Ancient Greekπέτρᾱ (pétrā)
2. Latinpetra
3. Englishpetro-
4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
6. Proto-Italic*θingō
7. Proto-Italic*fingō
8. Latinfingō
9. Latinfictiō
10. Old Frenchficcion
11. Middle Englishficcioun
12. Englishfiction
13. English todaypetrofiction

Originally coined as petro- + fiction by Amitav Ghosh in his review of Abdel Rahman Munif's quintet of novels Cities of Salt (published by New Republic in March 1992). The term was subsequently broadened by Imre Szeman in a 2012 article in American Book Review.