Articles by: Mary Woodbury

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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Celt, Wayne Marinovich

With the increasing threat of a major climate change event looming, a group of billionaire businessmen, chaired by the menacing Lord Francis Butler, are doing all in their power to control the earth’s remaining resources by influencing global governments. Could the secretive group of billionaires, preserve the last remaining resources […]

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Phoenix, Wayne Marinovich

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Forever Young – Omnibus Edition, Claude Nougat

Parts 1-4 of Claude Nougat’s series. 200 years from now, the world, in the grip of global warming, is eerily like ours, only much worse. The ultra-rich, a.k.a. the One Percenters, live in protected areas while the rest of humanity faces pollution, plagues and early death. Goodreads Reviews Back to […]

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Interview with Jim Gilbert, The Admiral

I wholly enjoyed reading this adventure story, a thrilling journey and ride with wonderful character development and a highly contagious heroine, Aqual. It’s a magnificent novel–something that many first-time authors do not achieve. The Admiral is a post-apocalyptic novel about a community of people trying to survive a climate-changed world […]

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Disturbing the Peace, Caroline Woodward

Please visit Caroline’s website for more of her novels. Kudos for Disturbing the Peace: Two long prose poems and fourteen short fictions inspired by the author’s upbringing on a Peace River homestead. Sharp-edged, observant and well-salted with wit, these stories are much-anthologized, from high school and university textbooks to TV […]

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Bending the Boyne, J.S. Dunn

Bending the Boyne draws on 21st century archaeology to show the lasting impact when early metal mining and trade take hold along north Atlantic coasts. Carved megaliths and stunning gold artifacts, from the Pyrenees up to the Boyne, come to life in this researched historical fiction. Goodreads Reviews   Back […]

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The Chosen, William Hatchett

From the author: One man, one planet, one destiny William Hatchett’s new novel, The Chosen, is a cosmic romp through space and time This is science fiction with a difference. The time machine in Hatchett’s novel is decorated with Willam Morris wallpaper and equipped with a drinks cabinets furnished with […]

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The Truth, Michael Palin

I just found this book the morning after seeing Monty Python’s live reunion. This book was first published last year, but a new paperback version  comes out August 19th, 2014. See Slant Magazine for one review, which states: Keith Mabbut, the protagonist of Michael Palin’s second novel, The Truth, represents, […]

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Out of the Depths, Noel Hodson

An “unputtabledownable” fact based drama, set in the Thames London estuary as global warming floods the coastal margins and billions of people worldwide grudgingly migrate to higher ground. What happens to London also occurs in New York and all coastal settlements.   Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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AD 2516: After Global Warming, Noel Hodson

Entered for The Whitbread First Novel Prize and reviewed by Brian Aldiss in The Times & The Guardian, who dubbed the author “That distinguished futurist”. AD2516 depicts the world re-born after the 2012 floods and pandemics in Noel Hodson’s first tale, OUT OF THE DEPTHS. It is a good read […]

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