The novel on which Soylent Green is based (there is no “soylent green is people” line in the actual novel), this book looks at a future world in which overpopulation and lack of natural resources cause environmental and societal collapse. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Hugo Award for Best Novel (1997), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1997), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1997), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity’s struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
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The Grower’s Gift, Vanna Smythe
The future is bleak in the year 2102. The planet is in chaos and the weather patterns have completely shifted, turning most of the world into an uninhabited wasteland. Sixteen-year-old Maya has a gift, a power she thinks can heal the earth and make it habitable again. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
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Interview with Morgan Nyberg, The Raincoast Saga
Morgan Nyberg is the author of a few titles, including two novels thus far in his Raincoast Saga. Intrigued by these books being set where I live, albeit far in the future, I asked Morgan for an interview and he politely agreed. For the record, I greatly enjoyed reading both […]
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The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Just published in July 2014, a new environmental polemic: The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People’s Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered […]
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The Works of Arthur Herzog and a Talk with his Widow Leslie
The tradition of fiction about climate change goes way back–you could say all the way back to narratives of old that were spoken or written. The canon began before we knew more about our modern human-caused climate variations, even before sci-fi writers imagined such climate disasters. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia […]
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Gary Snyder’s Practice of the Wild, Review by Mary Woodbury
In The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder mentions Grandmother wisdom, the kind of sagacity that our grandmothers pass on to us. This etiquette-knowledge that we grow up with is often in confluence with other systems that tell us how to get ahead in the world—not how to maintain integrity. […]
Read MoreSeptember 30, The Siskiyou Prize – Ashland Creek Press
Ashland Creek Press is pleased to announce the 2014 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000 and publication by Ashland Creek Press. The contest is open to unpublished, full-length prose manuscripts, including novels, memoirs, short story collections, and essay collections. Manuscripts should […]
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Dune Chronicles, Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert’s Dune Chronicles is a series of sci-fi classics that won Hugo and Nebula awards depicts water in a future world as scarce and costly. These books went on to become a successful mini-series. Goodreads Reviews Please see Frank Herbert’s son’s Brian Herbert’s continuance and additions to the Dune […]
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Can Small Islands Show the World how to Fight Climate Change?
By guest author Don Buchanan, Virgin Islands Energy Office Media Information Specialist Christiansted, St. Croix Island populations may bear the brunt of negative effects of climate change more than other populations. So, it should be no surprise that some islands have not hesitated in efforts to convert to non-fossil fuel […]
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The Wastelanders, Tim Hemlin
America is controlled by a corporate oligarchy known as the Water Cartel and warrior-priest Joey Hawke finds himself trapped between a mysterious geneticist amassing a clone army and a group of political fanatics convinced that a dead president will rise from his tomb to lead them to salvation. Goodreads Reviews […]
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Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. […]
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Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival […]
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