What is solarpunk? Please see this thread in SFF World for a roundtable of thoughts about what solarpunk is and how to think about creating stories in the genre. I also asked this question to Adam Flynn recently, and he described it as: Solarpunk is a somewhat promiscuous adjective, used […]
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Mr. Green Jeans
Author: © Chris S. McGee Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Publication Date: April 22, 2016 (Earth Day!) Audio: Chapter Five A week later, Saturday morning 2:00 a.m. It was dark, midnight-blue dark. We had waited for the new moon. Armed with the tools of the trade, we made our way through […]
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Fracture: Taylor Brorby, Stefanie Brook Trout
Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America In the past decade, fracking for natural gas has brought rapid change to landscapes and communities across the country. A new anthology of writing on the subject, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, investigates its nature, extent, and […]
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The Girl at the Center of the World, Austin Aslan
As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her friendships, and her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid–the force whose presence caused global devastation–but suffers regret over what she must do to survive. An […]
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The Islands at the End of the World
Author: © Austin Aslan Publisher: Random House Publication Date: September 2014 Social Media: Twitter (@Laustinspace), author blog, Facebook, Kirkus Reviews, Eco-fiction interview Back to the Dragonfly Library C H A P T E R 1 SUNDAY, APRIL 26 They’ve been getting bigger all evening. This one might be too big, […]
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Warning From My Future Self
Authors: © Jean Tepperman, art by Alfred Twu Publisher: Sunflower Alliance Publication Date: January 29, 2016 More Info: For information on printed copies, please contact Jean Tepperman In this 30-page comic book for both youth and adults, 10-year-old Gabe Sanchez of East Oakland tells the story of how he and […]
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The Mercy Journals, Claudia Casper
I got a chance to meet Claudia at one of her book launches, and she is a warm, down-to-earth person who filled the room with hugs, laughter, and soul. We will be talking again soon when I interview her about The Mercy Journals. The novel offers a view into the […]
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Discover Specks
There is an interesting story behind this book. Back when I published an online literary magazine (Jack), and my maiden name was Sands, I worked closely with poet Michael Rothenberg, who at that time was very close to Philip Whalen and later handled his estate. Michael also knew “meat poet” […]
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Mercedes Wore Black, Andrea Brunais
Florida Politics. The only thing predictable is the unpredictability. When Janis is fired from her job at the newspaper, she focuses on the causes that matter to her. The environment and the economy. That embroils her in the 2014 election. When her good friend Mercedes encounters danger and is brutally […]
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All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse. -Goodreads Tech culture’s strange relationship with nature takes centre stage in All the Birds in the Sky, a vivid, genre-blending novel from a writer who is clearly one to watch. Jumping skillfully from science fiction to fantasy and […]
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Augments of Change
Author: © Kelvin Christopher James Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Publication Date: June 2016 Social Media: Author site, Twitter (@KeloJames) Back to the Dragonfly Library Infection By the next day or two, all but one person in the caravan was infected; some with sniffles, some with sneezes, some feverish and flushed […]
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2022
Author: © Ken Kroes Series: 1st book in the Percipience series Publication Date: March 15, 2015 Ordering: Amazon, Smashwords Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 – The Contract The assassin’s target stood near the rear entrance of the city bus. A week of observation revealed that the man’s behavior in […]
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Interview with Johanna Melchiore, “Off Grid and Free”
Part XII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Johanna Melchiore is an amazing woman and the wife of Ron Melchiore, whose book Life Off Grid: My Path to the Wilderness explores their road less traveled. Ron and Johanna currently live in the total wilds of Saskatchewan in a remote […]
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Nature’s Confession
Author: JL Morin Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Press: Interview with Eco-fiction, Teenreads, Fjords Review Prison Class I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. —Ludwig Wittgenstein The stairs creaked underfoot, and the conversation in the kitchen abruptly stopped. […]
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Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. -Goodreads The novel … takes place in 2044, in a world devoid of resources due to climatic catastrophes. Wade Watts, […]
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