Articles by: Mary Woodbury

The Swarm, Arthur Herzog

Then [bee] terror began to spread–terror that was to erupt into a national panic as the strange, seemingly purposeful murderous attacks of a new and vicious species of bees began to mount. Against this background, a band of scientists draw upon their knowledge to fight an enemy they only partly […]

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Polar Swap, Arthur Herzog

Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race. […]

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Earthsound, Arthur Herzog

“A piercing shriek of fear and panic from page one to the shaking end!” —Cleveland Press Eerie suspense…Arthur Herzog’s The Swarm was mighty scary, but Earthsound is even more so!” —Publishers Weekly Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Floodlanders, Wayne Marinovich

It’s the year 2025. A teenage boy accompanies his father into the Central London Floodzone for the first time. Warren Smith is excited about travelling into this dangerous, unfamiliar world to sell their farm products at a market stall. Following a Climate Change event which resulted in a three metre […]

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Short Story Writing Contest and Poets for Change 2014

Please join our nature community to discuss the contest or just to chat about climate change fiction! Note that this contest ended in the summer of 2014. This is a short story contest, not a poetry contest. 100,000 Poets for Change is a broad event that includes all types of […]

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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Book exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. GoodReads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Moby Dick, Herman Melville

One of our favorite books, which also influenced our Back to the Garden. Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature—the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod’s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, […]

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The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to […]

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Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they […]

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Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny – Caroline Woodward

In this long-awaited novel, Caroline Woodward returns to her Peace River roots. Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny is a contemporary story about middle-aged love enduring despite prolonged separations. The story winds around Penny Toland, resolute ranch wife and part-time teacher, and her husband, Wade, reluctant rancher and good man, […]

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Water, Lloyd Jones

Previously listed on May 15, here is the updated post for Lloyd Jones’ Water, which is now available. Please scroll down for links to interviews, including the most recent interview with Ecoshock Radio. Wales. With the world in crisis, who knows what the future will bring? Food is scarce, the […]

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Blue into the Rip, Kev Heritage

Book One of the Into the Rip series. A Young Adult, Science Fiction, Climate Change, Time-Travel Adventure Blue didn’t want to be in the future…they didn’t want him there either. A rip in the fabric of time, a far-flung globally warmed future, a flooded Earth and the only remainder of […]

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Gut-Check Green, Peter Prasad

Here’s a modern-day, rapid-fire climate fiction thriller of vigilante justice set in California wine country. Gut-Check Green dances with diabolic characters and explores treatment of our wounded warriors. It raises disturbing questions about fertilizers and GMOs. This conspiracy is so plausible it may rattle your dinner plate and change the […]

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Change, Treesong

Sarah Athraigh, an environmental activist from Southern Illinois, stumbles into the midst of a hidden war between occult factions that are grappling with the root causes and dire consequences of climate change. As she goes on the run, she soon finds herself on a journey of discovery, searching for the […]

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Blackmail Earth, Bill Evans

Chief meteorologist for a national morning TV show, Jenna Withers is appointed to a US government task force on climate change because of her acclaimed book on geoengineering. Jenna is stunned to learn that a major oil company has a pilot project to release iron oxide into the sea. Al Qaeda […]

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