Welcome to the World Eco-fiction Series: Climate Change and Beyond. This spotlight series travels the planet exploring fictional stories close to natural landscapes and wildlife, often with environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological […]
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This month’s Turning the Tide spotlight is on Jane Calame, author of Our Earth (Atmosphere Press), a children’s book about sustainability. The book is illustrated by Daniela Frongia. Our Earth is an upbeat, rhyming guide to sustainability for little ones! From water conservation to recycling, this book offers up healthy […]
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I was happy to talk with Premee Mohamed about her sequel to The Annual Migration of Clouds—We Speak Through the Mountain (ECW Press, 2024). Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of […]
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About the Book The October world eco-fiction spotlight is on Thomas R. Weaver’s Artificial Wisdom (initially published by Chainmaker Press, 2024). The author independently published the novel but recently agreed to sell the rights to Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book will have a slightly revised […]
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Dusk continues Arnott’s tradition of exploring myth, human relationships and the natural world. Set sometime in the early 19th-century, Dusk is a Western of a different sort: reflective and understated. It is marked by the twins’ relentless yet quiet struggle to prove they are unlike their parents, prove they are […]
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Edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and curated by Grist, this anthology of innovated and visionary stories are winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. These stories are grounded in soul, a deep communion with the belief that we can—and must—rebuild our relationship with the planet. -Omar El Akkad, author […]
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A Place Unmade (Black Rose Writing) takes the reader on a provocative journey into the dangers lurking in our decreasing lack of biodiversity and patentable genetics. See an interview with author Carla Seyler at The Advocate. A Place Unmade, her environmental thriller released in May by Texas publishing house Black […]
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Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: Check out Jane Calame’s Our Earth, a children’s picture book and a Turning the Tide spotlight for October 2024. Teen Library Toolbox: […]
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As a meditation on the forces of predation and parasitism, monstrous fecundity and decay, and those hidden folk who occupy the spaces between the branches, Sylvan Dread evokes the primeval wood—the place where all dreams and nightmares begin. In this isolate copse we witness the excavation of abominations long earthbound, […]
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From a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futures with a radical compassion, comes the story of a family at the heart of a political crisis and the ensuing uprising of a disenfranchised generation. A family that harnesses the skills and stories needed for real change, if they […]
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Rewilding our Stories provides an inclusive, diverse, and safe space to explore the broad subjects of ecologically oriented fiction and creative nonfiction, which cover important connections, dependencies, and interactions between people and their natural environments. The range of genres found in this field of literature—which can include environmental and nature […]
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The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago, a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years—until now. And it’s the day he met Mal, […]
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“Part espionage and part existential thriller, Creation Lake dives deep into the world of ideology, environmental activism, and ultimately, the nature of identity itself.” See more at TypeBooks.
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About the Book “Vividly imagined and deftly paced, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands asks us to reconsider our place within the natural world amid a backdrop of capitalism and empire. Brooks has penned an elegant novel that is at once thrilling and transcendent. Also, there is a really […]
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Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard […]
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