Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative […]
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Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set […]
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Denise S. Robbins’ The Unmapping (Bindery Books) is described in Madison Magazine as an imaginative ecofiction novel. New York City residents wake to find the power grid is down, their neighbors are missing and Manhattan’s Empire State Building in Brooklyn. There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Series Into the Wild (HarperCollins) is the first book in the Wolf Girl series, a thrilling middle-grade trilogy about a young girl, separated from her family, who learns how to survive with only her new canine found family by […]
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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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Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: In September, Anh Do is our world eco-fiction spotlight author. We talk about his Wolf Girl series for middle-grade readers. In May, […]
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The August newsletter is out, and it focuses on drought (in fiction), which some of us are facing now. You’ll find extra news, such as book of the month, flashbacks, and extra commentary. Want to support this volunteer website? Dragonfly Pub’s ebook store is open! You can read about, buy, […]
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Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane (August 2025) is a story of hope and adapting to climate change—hidden inside an action-packed heist on the high seas. Inspired by the new genre of solarpunk, it tells the story of Moro, an ex-corporate heir, and a globe-spanning ensemble cast fighting for […]
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In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what […]
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Update: Dragonfly Pub’s ebook store is open! You can read about, buy, and download our ebooks directly. This site has always been ad-free, free to read, and freely supports authors and their books via interviews and promotions. I do this because I enjoy the field of eco-literature and want to […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book 108: An Eco-Thriller (Girl Friday Productions, June 2025): While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a […]
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Originally published July 8, 2014. Rebooted July 17, 2025 into the World Eco-fiction Series. Updated: This novel is now a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change […]
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Not quite sci-fi, not quite dystopian, this superb literary novel defies categorization. Readers will shiver as they keep turning the pages. Audrey Schulman has once again written a spellbinding, original novel that never loses sight of its humanity.Read more at Europa Editions. The book is also listed at Jeff VanderMeer’s […]
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From the beloved, award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world. “One of my FAVORITE NOVELS of the past few years.” -Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation Read more […]
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About the Book A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. Betsy’s a modern-day Witch with an ageless problem: she’s worried about screwing up her coven’s ritual. Again. But the coven has a bigger issue to face—the destruction of their […]
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