Author: © Peagum Coleman Publication Date: March 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 8 Victoria Snow’s Flat, Bristol Wednesday 22nd August 5.00 p.m. The Old Man awoke, instantly aware that something was about to happen. He sniffed the air and recognised a familiar scent. He […]
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Author: © Bev Prescott Publication Date: September 11, 2018 Publisher: Bywater Books Type: Fiction Ordering: Bywater Books, Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website Chapter 7, Scene 1 THE SOLDIER TORE EVE FROM SHARON’S GRASP. “No!” Sharon strained to hear the words her wife mouthed, I love you. Her own […]
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The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: offer it as an artists’ colony with free room, board, and “life experience” in exchange for backbreaking labor. Silvia, a wide-eyed graduate and would-be poet, […]
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In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind […]
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American meteorologists rated the Dust Bowl the number one weather event of the twentieth century. And as they go over the scars of the land, historians say it was the nation’s worst prolonged environmental disaster. -Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great […]
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Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts […]
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Updated: Coming in August 2018 is the English translation. Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge […]
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Click here to return to the series One of the things eco-fiction is concerned about is the environmental destruction of the planet. Global eco-fiction lifts the gaze above the norm and into a worldly perspective in which authors and artists understand that ecological collapse is both a global concern and […]
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Back to the series Several months ago I became enamored by a multi-media project–Protectors of the Wood. John KixMiller, the author of the series, works with a team of artists and musicians who beautifully capture the novels with artistic illustrations and supplement the novels with a podcast for each episode. […]
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Author: © Marissa Slaven Publication Date: April 22, 2018 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website, Podcast Excerpt — July Three splintering blasts, followed by a short pause, repeated twice more. My ears are still ringing and, shading my eyes with my hand, […]
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Author: © George Mercer Publication Date: June 17, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Prologue The willows lashed at his face as Charlie struggled through the snow, weighed down by the ice quickly encasing his tattered snow boots. Despite the freezing temperature, a steady stream […]
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Drucker said the title of the novel refers to a genre of science fiction called animal uplift, which features animals espousing human behaviors and becoming more advanced in the process, as seen in stories such as “Planet of the Apes.” However, “Downdrift” acts as a play on the term “uplift” […]
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Back to the series April’s feature on authors who explore global warming in fiction covers Kathleen Dean Moore. Moore’s background in environmental activism and nature writing is abundant, though this article will also spotlight also her newest novel Piano Tide (Counterpoint, 2017), winner of the 2017 Willa Cather Award for […]
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Part XVII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Natasha Carthew Thanks, Natasha, for taking the time to chat with Eco-fiction.com! Natasha joins us as the 17th feature in our “Women Working in Nature and the Arts” series. She has been published previously as a poet and young adult writer […]
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As I wrote The Silent Invasion, other pieces began to fall into place: the arrival of something alien on Earth; widespread panic and the battle for control; the idea of replication and the uncanny. And perhaps most importantly, the idea of a natural world that was no longer passive, but […]
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