Project Hieroglyph brings scientists and science fiction writers together to create positive visions of the future. From the Hieroglyph website: This anthology unites twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of “techno-optimism” that challenge us […]
Read MoreReview by Nina Munteanu Margaret Atwood’s Booker Award nominee Oryx and Crake is a sharp-edged, dark contemplative essay on the premise of where the myopia of greed, power and obsession with “self-image” and its outstripping of ethics and morality may take us. Replete with sordid subject matter and unlikeable but […]
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From Boing Boing: “Cartooning entomologist Jay Hosler‘s forthcoming young adult graphic novel Last of the Sandwalkers masterfully combines storytelling with science.” This upcoming graphic novel displays the life of beetles. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Thanks to author James Ellis for bringing to our attention his new climate change thriller, Super Bunker. From the author: Signs and warnings of global warming have been ignored. The pristine planet we once knew is quickly vanishing. Now Earth’s citizens must build underground shelters in order to survive. This […]
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A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, […]
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From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Note: This book is a free download at Smashwords. Thanks much to Mark Mann, the author, for bringing this YA fantasy to our attention. Twins Jack and Kaya live in a small seaside town in Australia. When they see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the […]
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Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]
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This book is set to come out November 1, 2014. A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for “internally displaced person or persons”) imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics […]
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Thanks to H.A. Swain for submitting information about her new YA novel Hungry: Excerpts from reviews: “Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver will flock to this story.” –School Library Journal “In a world where you take medication to ward off hunger and a supplement […]
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Thanks to Andrew Hanson, author, for providing us a good description of his new book: In the year 2030, London is recovering from a disastrous flood, which some say was caused by climate change. When a controversial talk-show host is murdered, suspicion falls on radical activist Ben Martins. Ben may be innocent, […]
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Thanks to Philip Temple, author, for providing information about this new speculative fiction and “future realist” title. It is available in New Zealand book stores, through Philip Temple’s website, and soon as an e-book. Is this what our future looks like? The surveillance society, climate change, global financial crises, the […]
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Thanks again for doing an interview with Cli-Fi Books. We first talked last October about your book 500 Parts per Million. It was a great interview, and I was intrigued by your comparison of proactive youth in the 1960s compared to modern day–especially now when we face the biggest environmental […]
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Following her widely hailed, award-winning debut novel, My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki returns here to deliver a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humorous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalization, political resistance, youth culture, and aging baby boomers. All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of […]
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Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo’s work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. […]
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