Leaphorn & Chee is a series started by Tony Hillerman. When he died, his daughter, author Anne Hillerman, took over the series. A moderator at our Google newsgroup, Charlene D’Avanzo, calls this an environmental mystery series. According to Charlene: I call them environmental mysteries – novels in which the natural […]
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2050: A Future History – Series, J. Zornado
Thanks to author J. Zornado, professor of English at Rhode Island College, for news of his trilogy 2050: A Future History. He writes: The overarching narrative is a meditation on knowing. It is also a projection about where things are headed from here, given our obsessions with AI, cloning, and […]
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Through the Eyes of a Stranger, Will Bonsall
A picture of a sustainable future realm contrasted with one much like our own. Wonderful heartwarming plot, eye-opening setting, and timeless topics. This book might well suit readers from 10 years old on. It’s a tale of escape from a distopic empire to a wondrous contrasting country, both set half […]
Read MoreClimate Change Novels Set in British Columbia
I have blogged before about Clara Hume’s book Back to the Garden, which Moon Willow Press published in late 2013. Clara Hume, an author local to British Columbia, begins the novel in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, just over the border from the Thompson-Okanagen-Similkameen-Kootenay regions of BC. In Back to […]
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Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha
Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, ‘It’s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.’ Our radical imaginations are under […]
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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson
Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science […]
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Kaboom!, Brian Adams
We are pleased to showcase Brian Adams’ newest book KABOOM!, a YA eco-novel. We interviewed Brian after the publication of his recent novel Love in the Time of Climate Change, which won the Forward Review IndieFab 2014 gold medal in the humor category. Congrats to Brian on his newest endeavor. […]
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A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
This beautiful book of children’s poetry, another I found at the bookstore in Port Moody, was originally published in 1885 and “reflects a Scottish poet’s vision of the Victorian world.” Illustrated by Joanna Isles (from a 1994 reprint), A Child’s Garden of Verses, with dozens of poems, is exploding with old-time […]
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Kissing Frogs, Alisha Sevigny
Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Scott has a secret: she used to be a nerd — a big one — a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating […]
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Listen, Francesca Varela
In Listen Francesca tells us the story of May. May is a piano-genius college freshman who dreams of becoming a brilliant composer. In her school’s practice rooms she meets Conner, an undeniably unattractive junior, and she is immediately captivated by his raw musicality on the piano. As May tries to […]
Read MoreWhat is Solarpunk?
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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