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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Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Micah Thorp is a physician and writer in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Uncle Joe’s Muse, won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A sequel, Uncle Joe’s Senpai, was published in 2023. His writing […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m thrilled to talk with P. Finian Reilly about his new novel Ice’s End. It’s only the second time the world eco-fiction series has traveled to Antarctica—the first being a conversation with Ilija Trojanow about his novel Lamentations of Zeno. About […]
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Jessica Mann’s novel Uplift (2024) is a work of realistic animal fiction, told entirely from the point of view of wild birds, animals, and an ancient tree. The book has won national awards and been featured in Psychology Today and The Nature Conservancy. When her high mountain wilderness is threatened […]
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Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set […]
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Denise S. Robbins’ The Unmapping (Bindery Books) is described in Madison Magazine as an imaginative ecofiction novel. New York City residents wake to find the power grid is down, their neighbors are missing and Manhattan’s Empire State Building in Brooklyn. There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Series Into the Wild (HarperCollins) is the first book in the Wolf Girl series, a thrilling middle-grade trilogy about a young girl, separated from her family, who learns how to survive with only her new canine found family by […]
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Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane (August 2025) is a story of hope and adapting to climate change—hidden inside an action-packed heist on the high seas. Inspired by the new genre of solarpunk, it tells the story of Moro, an ex-corporate heir, and a globe-spanning ensemble cast fighting for […]
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In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what […]
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