Title: The Apocalypse Variations, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Author: © Marc Taro Holmes Ordering: print, e-book Publication Date: June 22, 2019 Author Link: website Back to the Dragonfly Library The Apocalypse Variations Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Marc Taro Holmes, CSPWC, SCA Copyright © 2019 Marc Taro Holmes […]
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A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Just magnificent. -Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not […]
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Click here to return to the series In September, we look at another YA fiction novel–and yet another novel set in South Africa. Thanks to Stormbird Press and author Gila Green for the interview and essay. Stormbird Press, one of our affiliates, is a new publisher in Australia. As an […]
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A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Goodreads […]
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The sea has invaded its boundaries, and its inhabitants reside in a towering structure called the Bombadrome, which hovers above the barren land. Theirs is an artificially equated society; they lead technologically directed lives; they have no memory of the past. They don’t remember that this place was once called […]
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A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that […]
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In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally […]
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Awakening Worlds is a coming of age novel with contemporary Gothic themes and elements of magical realism, a must-read for anyone who loves otherworldly fantasy. When Roselyn, daughter of the universe, learns humanity’s growing disregard for Earth’s health is putting her mother’s life in danger, she volunteers to nurture a […]
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In 2017, Christopher Brown published his debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, a near-future thriller that explores how climate change and broken politics have created a dystopian wasteland…Rule of Capture is a prequel set in the same world. –The Verge Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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“The Warehouse” traffics in big ideas: unchecked monopoly, surveillance capitalism, climate change, the gig economy, consumerism and political gridlock. But, retailed in elegant, unobtrusive prose, this cinematic sci-fi thriller wears its subjects lightly. –San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The book is practically a novelization of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s post-World War II poem “First they came …,” but the environmental effects of the disappearances of things like roses and fruit make Ogawa’s prose feel applicable not just to political atrocities like genocide but to climate change or any […]
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With sharp humor and deep empathy, The Gulf is a memorable debut novel in which Belle Boggs plumbs the troubled waters dividing America. -Goodreads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Click here to return to the series This month we look at Sita Brahmachari’s novel Where the River Runs Gold (Waterstones, July 2019), which takes place in an everyland, according to the author. But she told me that Meteore mountain–meaning between earth and sky–was inspired by Meteora in Greece and […]
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A few years ago I came across the Dark Mountain Project randomly. Once there, I thought–where can I find something like this near me? I remember at the time I had just been to Ireland and wished to meet other writers taking interest in local natural places as well as […]
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Argentinian Pola Oloixarac’s novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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