Author: © Carol Fiore Series: Book One – The Skye Van Bloem Trilogy Publication Date: May 24, 2018 Ordering: Amazon, Other Social Media: Author Website, Amazon Author Page, Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Groups Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 17 At least Skye remembered to take a deep breath and hold […]
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Author: © Stephen Lowe Publication Date: June 1, 2017 Ordering: Amazon UK, Waterstones Social Media: Twitter Chapter 16 — Tea in the Hudson Hungry now, Torval and Dean sucked krill from the surrounding seawater and sang to each other tender whale lullabies, four beats to a bar… The whales swam […]
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Back to the series In this spotlight, I look at how ecology intersects with weird fiction. This has been an interest of mine, but I have done only one similar spotlight–on Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy–two years ago. It’s good to come back to this subject. You may also want […]
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Click here to return to the series Welcome to Dragonfly’s new global eco-fiction series, where I explore fiction from around the world dealing with environmental crises. In this feature, I look at, and re-enjoy, Agam, a book project from the Philippines in 2014. Thanks very much to Redentor Constantino, from […]
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This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Dragonfly, and I wanted to make it special on this fifth anniversary. Perhaps this should have been my first post ever, but it took me a long time to come up with a standard for any sort of […]
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Unfortunately I cannot find this book at Goodreads yet, but the Hindu Business Line has an interesting article with the title: Unquiet Flows a River: The English translation of a famed 1974 Tamil novel lets a broader audience take in the ethos of a subaltern people in a fecund Dravidian […]
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Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the “void behind the face of order,” is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the […]
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Click here for all, including The Vorrh and The Erstwhile. The richly grotesque Vorrh trilogy describes a quest to rescue the tree of knowledge and return Creation to a state of primal innocence. –The Guardian In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling’s Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives […]
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This is not only a book for aficionados of the journey and search genre of literature e.g. Lord of the Rings, but will also appeal to those who enjoy a cracking adventure story. It is very interesting to read how a disparate ethnic and genetic mix of people meld together […]
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In the near future, the ravages of a warming planet have worsened, driving a new era of climate refugees. Rohini Haakonsen, a young Indian-American woman, attends a UN conference on the problem when humanoid aliens materialize. Known as the Elders, the aliens present themselves as benign, even offering to help […]
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea —“…reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago,” (David Mitchell)—comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin’s vision of her classic saga. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
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When Park Warden Jenny Willson initiates a covert inquiry into a proposed ski hill in Yoho National Park, she’s quickly drawn into a web of political, environmental, and criminal intrigue that threatens to tear apart a small B.C. town. Suddenly, neighbour is pitted against neighbour, friend against friend, and family […]
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Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that […]
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Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital of Bangladesh. When he learns that his dead mother was a djinn — more commonly known as a genie — and that his drunken loutish father is a sitting emissary to […]
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Now here’s a classic that truly belongs in the collection at this site (originally published in 1957). Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. […]
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