Back to the Indie Corner series Intro During the summer and autumn, we often visit Wolfville’s Farmers’ Market in the lush Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. During one of those trips this past year, I was amazed to meet the most interesting author, Anne Smith-Nochasak. We talked for a long […]
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Author Kimberly Christensen has reviewed a lot of children’s and YA eco-books for this site, and she now has her own book out: The Brink Box, so I decided to feature her in Dragonfly.eco’s Turning the Tide (for younger readers). One reader describes the book: A captivating tale about the […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book This month we travel to the Amazon with Mona Shomali, author of Water Mamas: A Novel of Climate, Spirituality, and Indigenous Human Rights. In the not-so-distant future, the Earth’s lungs are failing. A United Nations representative, Afa, finds herself […]
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This collection of illustrated poems explores those risks inherent in utopia and the idea that through science alone we can solve our environmental problems. Through femme and queer perspectives, Smith lays bare the social implications of a technological savior, and creates a blueprint for co-opting technology in the name of […]
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Maggie O’Farrel’s (author of Hamnet) novel Land is about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization, and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As […]
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This stunning, devastating debut starts slowly, easing us into the future where the novel takes place, a future marked by global heating and mass extinction. Tom, a scientist working to find and preserve the fading vestiges of plant and wildlife, brings home specimens and treasures to share with his daughter, […]
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Fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent, consider this your warning: with The Verdant Cage, Jess Lourey has unleashed a YA dystopian thriller so taut and propulsive I was breathlessly tearing through pages straight to 3 a.m. It’s pure adrenaline—with a slow-burn romance glinting beneath the danger and a jaw-dropping […]
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In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease. Coming May 2026. Read more at Shakespeare and Company.
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Back to the Indie Corner series Robert Savino Oventile hikes Eaton Canyon regularly. He is a coauthor with Sandy Florian of Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down (Atmosphere, 2021). Through poems and photos, The Canyon, by Robert Savino Oventile, meditates on Eaton Canyon, a unique ecosystem nestled adjacent to Pasadena and […]
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The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, edited by André M. Carrington, includes weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more. Here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading […]
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Newly translated by David Hackston. A breathtaking literary achievement and an adventure that crosses continents and centuries, Beasts of the Sea is a tale of grand ambition, the quest for knowledge, and the urge to resurrect what humankind has, in its ignorance, destroyed. Read more at Hachette Book Group.
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Featuring works by rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity’s deep relationships with other species and of our communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world—all told through the lens of the fantastic. Ranging from literary science fiction and magical […]
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Fifteen-year-old Katey Dade knows her school’s corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It’s all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Each school day, a captive audience of students ages […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Rebooted for November 2025 At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, Arif Anwar’s The Storm (Washington Square Press, 2021) “moves us deftly through time and across borders, beautifully illustrating the strange intersections we call fate, […]
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Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, What A Fish Looks Like gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change, wondering who is going to love us when there are not, in […]
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