The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains […]
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Where Oceans Hide their Dead, John Yunker
The long-awaited sequel to The Tourist Trail…Robert Porter has quit the FBI in search of his long-lost (and presumed dead) love, Noa, only to find himself on the wind-raked shores of Southern Africa working for a seal-rescue organization. When a confrontation with local sealers ends in murder, Robert must abandon […]
Read MoreWar Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to […]
Read MoreRègne Animale, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
There’s a host of discussions about climate change, land and animals, including French literary big-hitter Jean-Baptiste del Amo whose novel Animalia transports us to life in a pigsty. –Bogotá Post Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: dopo Céline e Houellebecq la Francia celebra il suo nuovo grande scrittore apocalittico, duro, violento… Una voce […]
Read MoreEmpire of the Wild, Cherie Dimaline
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou–a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up, Little Red Riding Hood. -Goodreads Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
Read MoreThe Orchardist’s Daughter, Karen Viggers
The theme of conservation runs strong in all four of Karen Vigger’s works. She trained as a domestic and wildlife veterinarian and loves the great outdoors. This strong attachment to nature appeals to her readers across the world. –rFI Set in the old-growth eucalypt forests and vast rugged mountains of […]
Read MoreThe Forbidden Place, Susanne Jansson
A book, television show, or movie set somewhere in Scandinavia leads the reader or viewer to expect dark, foreboding landscapes and ominous, threatening events. Susanne Jansson’s sparkling debut novel The Forbidden Place fulfills these expectations in a myriad of absorbing ways. –Run Spot Run In the remote Swedish wetlands lies […]
Read MoreThe Battle for the Black Fen
Author: © Annis Pratt Series: Infinite Games, book 4 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: December 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Series Description Annis Pratt’s novels are full of passion for the natural world and enthusiasm for the details of everyday life. Her invented […]
Read MoreClimate Change Author Spotlight – Brian Adams
Back to the series In our 31st spotlight on climate change authors I talk with Brian Adams, who has become a prolific fiction writer covering various environmental themes for teens and young adults. I first talked with Brian in November 2014 after the publication of his novel Love in the […]
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Series Spotlights You’ve landed on an old page. Please see this link for the ongoing series. I. Jeff VanderMeer | II. Margaret Atwood | III. Nathaniel Rich | IV. Emmi Itäranta | V. Kim Stanley Robinson | VI. Ursula K. Le Guin | VII. Ali Smith | VIII. Peter Heller […]
Read MoreThe River, Peter Heller
The real delight is the nature writing. The River is a fiction addition to the New Landscape writing of Robert Macfarlane and Rebecca Solnit, prose so vivid and engaging that a city-dwelling reviewer can feel the clammy cold of a fog over a river or the heat of subterranean tree roots […]
Read MoreThe Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, Veeraporn Nitiprapha
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, which won the South East Asian Writers Award for the original Thai edition, is also lush with characters — and foliage and fauna. In Veeraporn’s telling, the Thai capital doesn’t unfold, as in Pitchaya’s plaited tale, but explode. –The New York Times Goodreads Reviews […]
Read MoreBangkok Wakes to Rain, Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles. -Ron Charles, Washington Post Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
Read MoreTo Follow Elephants, Rick Hodges
Click here to return to the series In today’s world series, we travel back to the continent of Africa, this time with author Rick Hodges; we talk about his visits to Kenya and his new novel To Follow Elephants (Stormbird Press, March 2019). Stick around, because this summer we will […]
Read MoreOil on Water, Helon Habila
Habila’s spare but vivid prose takes the reader from the tenements of the working poor to the mansions of oil executives, from the camps of armed militants to peaceful, quasi-monastic communities devoted to the worship of nature gods. But as diverse as Nigeria is, the entire country has one common, […]
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