Articles by: Mary Woodbury

No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet

The Green Stories Project, in association with Herculean Climate Solutions, brought together sustainability experts and experienced writers, such as  Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Sara Foster, and others, to compile an anthology of 24 top climate solutions wrapped up in engaging stories. The anthology is a collection of inspiring, funny, […]

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Animal Truth and Other Stories, Sharona Muir

Animal Truth and Other Stories is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double […]

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Limberlost, Robbie Arnott

The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.

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Australian Spotlight, James Bradley

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the […]

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Backyard Wildlife – The Fog

Back to Series I might be repeating a post I made before, but speaking of fog, I have the brain fog that comes with Covid-19, my first bout with it. I’m slowly recovering, and part of the ritual at night is getting up to fluff the pillows so I won’t […]

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King of Hope, Kim Conklin

In her debut novel, King of Hope, Michigan native Kim Conklin writes about a small community in southern Ontario facing the looming threat of environmental disaster…The environmental aspect also makes it a work of eco-fiction. –Spartan News Room

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Salt and Skin, Eliza Henry-Jones

Drawing on records of the witch trials and folk tales of the northern isles, Salt and Skin is full of tenderness, magic, and yearning. It’s a meditation on the absence of women’s voices and stories in history, and the unexpected ways that sites of long-ago trauma continue to haunt the living. […]

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Tipping Point/Counterpoint, Michelle Cook

From Crooked Cat & Darkstroke Books: Tipping Point What would you risk to turn back the tide? Essie Glass might have been a typical eighteen-year-old—had life not dealt her an early blow. Struggling to come to terms with the loss of her family in a terrorist attack, and left with […]

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Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

A re-imagined Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield story, set in the Appalachian Mountains, this large book (over 600 pages) explores the life of a boy born in a poverty-stricken area to a single mother and looks at the opioid crisis in southern America. But, also, the beauty of the backwoods and […]

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The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg

Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, confronts the problems left behind by her predecessor…Meanwhile, the poet Erígra Lilún, who merely wants to be left alone, is repeatedly asked by their ancestor […]

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Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, Akil Kumarasamy

In the near future, a young woman finds her mother’s body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students–living […]

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Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman

In Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman uses ecological collapse as a backdrop for a chilling tale of alchemy and corruption. –The Washington Post  

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The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Naylor

Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. A near-future thriller about the nature of consciousness, Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a dazzling literary debut and a mind-blowing dive into […]

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Aquarius Rising Trilogy, Brian Burt

Updated news: After the previous publisher closed its doors, author Brian Burt has released his Aquarius Rising Trilogy on Amazon. Book 1, In the Tears of God, won EPIC’s 2014 eBook Award for SF, and Book 2, Blood Tide, won the 2016 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for SF. The previous […]

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Spotlight – Rae Mariz

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the […]

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