A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven.
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Articles by: Mary Woodbury
The Rooftop Garden, Menaka Raman-Wilms
Click here to return to the series This month we head to Germany, for the first time in the world eco-fiction series, to explore The Rooftop Garden (Nightwood Editions, October 2022), a debut novel from Menaka Raman-Wilms’—author, journalist, and host of The Globe and Mail’s The Decibel. Thanks to Menaka […]
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The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel
The Last Animal takes readers on a wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best […]
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Backyard Wildlife – A Changing Climate
Back to Series It’s nearing the end of the year, and we’ve had no snow yet. Maybe a light spit of flakes that didn’t accumulate. This is highly unusual for us, but the latest climate-risk report notes that less snow is likely in the future in our area. We have […]
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World Eco-fiction: A Recap
For December 2022’s spotlight on world eco-fiction, I’d like to celebrate our ten-year birthday with a look back at our spotlights and interviews throughout the years. Tidbits Here’s some interesting statistics from the past ten years: I’ve done 134 interviews, some with traditionally popular authors and some with indie authors. […]
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Aquarius Rising Trilogy, Brian Burt
Author: © Brian Burt Type: Series (Aquarius Rising) Publisher: Brian Burt Publication Date: October 18, 2022 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Aquarius Rising Trilogy (Prologue) Ocypode’s lungs burned. He pressed against the leprous wall festooned with corals and barnacles, on the lower level of […]
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The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker; his pregnant wife, Frida; and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the […]
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No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet
The Green Stories Project, in association with Herculean Climate Solutions, brought together sustainability experts and experienced writers, such as Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Sara Foster, and others, to compile an anthology of 24 top climate solutions wrapped up in engaging stories. The anthology is a collection of inspiring, funny, […]
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Animal Truth and Other Stories, Sharona Muir
Animal Truth and Other Stories is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double […]
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Limberlost, Robbie Arnott
The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.
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Australian Spotlight, James Bradley
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the […]
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Backyard Wildlife – The Fog
Back to Series I might be repeating a post I made before, but speaking of fog, I have the brain fog that comes with Covid-19, my first bout with it. I’m slowly recovering, and part of the ritual at night is getting up to fluff the pillows so I won’t […]
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King of Hope, Kim Conklin
In her debut novel, King of Hope, Michigan native Kim Conklin writes about a small community in southern Ontario facing the looming threat of environmental disaster…The environmental aspect also makes it a work of eco-fiction. –Spartan News Room
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Salt and Skin, Eliza Henry-Jones
Drawing on records of the witch trials and folk tales of the northern isles, Salt and Skin is full of tenderness, magic, and yearning. It’s a meditation on the absence of women’s voices and stories in history, and the unexpected ways that sites of long-ago trauma continue to haunt the living. […]
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Tipping Point/Counterpoint, Michelle Cook
From Crooked Cat & Darkstroke Books: Tipping Point What would you risk to turn back the tide? Essie Glass might have been a typical eighteen-year-old—had life not dealt her an early blow. Struggling to come to terms with the loss of her family in a terrorist attack, and left with […]
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