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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The Stone Gate, Mark Mann
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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Polly and the One and Only World, Don Bredes
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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IDP: 2043, Denise Mina
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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Hungry, H.A. Swain
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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Greenies, Andrew Hanson
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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MiSTORY, Philip Temple
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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Interview with Peter Romilly, Cli-fidelity
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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All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki
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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Pump Six and Other Stories, Paolo Bacigalupi
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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Wasteland, Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan
Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal […]
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The New Atlantis, Ursula K. Le Guin
A vision of hope sinking and hope rising, in an America paralyzed by corporate control of government while sea levels rise catastrophically due to human-caused climate change. First published in The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1975, the scarily prescient story was nominated […]
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100,000 Poets for Change
On September 27 this year, we’ll be participating in Vancouver, British Columbia’s 100,000 Poets for Change. We kicked off this virtual event in June, with a short story contest about climate change, which is ongoing! (Please do read the rules, and they must be followed if you want to have […]
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Maximum Ride – Series, James Patterson
This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian. Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads […]
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Hainish Cycle – Series, Ursula K. Le Guin
Each book stands alone, although all books in the cycle are set in the same universe. Works are not numbered, as author says: “People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in — the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen […]
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