Articles by Mary Woodbury

Melt

Author: © Lisa Walker Publication Date: May 2, 2018 Publisher: Lacuna Publishing Type: Fiction Ordering: Lacuna Publishing Social Media: Author website, blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter   Chapter Fourteen: The krill issue I am seated at a table with the scientists. Lucas is back in his favourite jeans and T-shirt and […]

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The Word for Woman is Wilderness, Abi Andrews

The many-colored themes and ideas in the book are themselves painted on complex and overlapping canvases – of feminism, in an age of wilderness, but a wilderness that has been warped as it becomes embedded in the Anthropocene. –The Ecologist Filled with a sense of wonder for the natural world […]

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Stealing Air, Ralph Walker

Stealing Air is the second in the Rising Waters Series of near future short stories. Similar to Black Mirror or Close Encounters before it, this episodic anthology follows everyday characters into a world challenged by accelerating technology and inevitable climate change. Each story stands alone, but together they paint a […]

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Vanishing Acts

Author: © Jaimee Wriston Colbert; cover image © Maile Colbert 2018 Publication Date: March 1, 2018 Publisher: Fomite Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website 20 Gwen ANOTHER HOT, DRY JANUARY NIGHT and Gwen yanks down her blanket then the sheet, sweating, sleepless, thinking about the affair that […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Jaimee Wriston Colbert

Back to the series Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of six books of fiction: Vanishing Acts, her new novel; Wild Things, linked stories, winner of the CNY 2017 Book Award in Fiction, finalist for the AmericanBookFest Best Books of 2017, and longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize; the novel Shark Girls, finalist for the USABookNews Best […]

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Aaron Falk Series

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, […]

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All Rivers Run Free, Natasha Carthew

Thanks so much to the publisher for sending me a galley and press about this upcoming novel. All Rivers Run Free is a lyrical novel about marginalisation, mental illness and motherhood set on the ravaged, near-future coast of Cornwall. It’s a world collapsing under flooding and social breakdown, with military […]

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Jeff VanderMeer Thoughts on Writing

How to write great fiction without being didactic, while under stress, while living a full life? How to write in your head and find where you wanted your writing to go while doing other things than writing? How to relay environmental subjects, even big ones like global warming, in your […]

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River’s Child, Mark Daniel Seiler

Thanks to the author for bringing this title to our attention. It looks pretty awesome. I’ll attach the press release for now and will update the Goodreads listing later. Deep under Norway’s Svalbard mountain, the world’s plant seeds are preserved in a vault designed to withstand global crises, including the […]

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Interview with Caroline Woodward

Part XVI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Caroline Woodward Caroline Woodward is a writer of fiction, poetry and children’s books, living on the Lennard Island Lightstation at the entrance to Clayoquot Sound, near Tofino, BC. She is qualified as an Assistant Lightkeeper and often works relief at this […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Paolo Bacigalupi

Back to the series Paolo Bacigalupi’s novels tell stories about human impacts on the environment–and, in turn, the results of these impacts back on humans. An award-winning author, Bacigalupi often explores bioengineering and loss of fossil fuels or fresh water in his stories. His novels in this field include The […]

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Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver

On February 5, the Herald Live (link no longer valid) announced Kingsolver’s newest novel. According to the announcement: The new novel is set in two different eras, first in the modern-day US, in a fictional town called Vineland where Willa Knox stands braced against the vicissitudes of her shattered life […]

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Ecological Weird Fiction

Note: Updated for part 3 of the SSF World series. I’d like to share some resources and thoughts on “ecological weird” fiction. After sitting in a couple panels about ecologically oriented fiction at Science Fiction and Fantasy World, I came onboard as a volunteer writer for the site. My first […]

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The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell

In four interrelated parts, The Tangled Lands is an evocative and epic story of resistance and heroic sacrifice in the twisted remains surrounding the last great city of Khaim. Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell have created a fantasy for our times about a decadent and rotting empire facing environmental collapse […]

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