Robert Sassor combines his twin passions for sustainability and creative writing as a Director at Metropolitan Group, a leading social change agency and one of B Lab’s 100 “best for the world” corporations. Following Rob’s years as an English major at Willamette University, Rob conducted research and ghostwrote about a […]
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Winner – Robert Russell Sassor – First Light
Watch for these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).
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The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King
This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running […]
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Winner Announcement: Due to a big weekend at Word Vancouver, and the fact the panel made their decisions early, we are announcing the winner a couple days early! Congrats to Mehek Naresh for the winning story, “Left Behind.” This story will appear at our Green Reads – Excerpts site soon. […]
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The Ark, Annabel Smith
The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s […]
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Fallen Angels – Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn
Having been shot down over the North Dakota glacier, two Space Habs astronauts find themselves paralyzed by the Earth’s gravity and at the center of a ruthless manhunt by the United States government. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Mother of Storms, John Barnes
It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly and radically warming the Earth’s climate. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Time of the Great Freeze, Robert Silverberg
For centuries, men had lived miles beneath the ground in order to survive the great Ice Block that had submerged the earth. In an attempt to resume human contact, Jim Barnes, his father and several other daring men emerge from a subterranean New York to cross the frozen Atlantic. Reviews […]
Read MoreAngel of Chaos, Nina Munteanu
Nina Munteanu’s Angel of Chaos is a gripping blend of big scientific ideas, cutthroat politics and complex yet sympathetic characters that will engage readers from its thrilling opening to its surprising and satisfying conclusion. -Hayden Trenholm, Aurora-winning writer of The Steele Chronicles Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreDarwin’s Paradox, Nina Munteanu
A devastating disease. A world on the brink of violent change. And one woman who can save it or destroy it all. Julie Crane must confront the will of the ambitious virus lurking inside her to fulfill her final destiny as Darwin’s Paradox, the key to the evolution of an […]
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Hieroglyph, Neal Stephenson (Various)
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 MoreMargaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Review by Nina Munteanu
Review 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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Last of the Sandwalkers, Jay Hosler
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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Super Bunker, James Ellis
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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Egg & Spoon, Gregory Maguire
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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