The writer—who was also shortlisted in 2023—has won the 2026 Arthur C Clarke prize for her book When There Are Wolves Again, a speculative work of eco-fiction set in near-future Britain. Read more at The Guardian. Decades from now, two women sit beside a campfire and reflect on their life stories. […]
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Cyborg Contact, Terry Birdgenaw
Is Earth ready for an extraterrestrial visitor warning about a climate catastrophe? Dee didn’t plan to become the world’s most wanted illegal alien. He just wanted to save a dying planet. A cyborg ANT from Bilaluna, Dee crash-lands in a Mexican cenote and embarks on an epic road trip from […]
Read MoreLion Time, Barbara J. Moritsch
Barbara is a self-published authors with three books. Two are novels in a series (The Oracle of the Wild): Lion Time (2026) and Wolf Time (2020), and one is non-fiction, The Soul of Yosemite (2012). Lion Time is newly out. Visit Bear Clover Books to order her books. Wildlife biologist […]
Read MoreWildfire Verses, Sakiru Adebayo
Click here to return to the world ecofiction series About the Book Written in the aftermath of the 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire, Wildfire Verses chronicles the experience of displacement and the emotional toll of living through a climate disaster. Drawing on his evacuation from Kelowna during the fire, Sakiru Adebayo […]
Read MoreDream the Deep, Clara World
Reviews “Nobody writes solarpunk like Clara Ward. Dream the Deep is a shimmering, geeky delight of a story about the profound connections between humans and our ecosystems, as well as the promise of the unknown.” –Annalee Newitz, bestselling author of Automatic Noodle and The Terraformers “A fascinating queer dystopian story with sentient octopi and […]
Read MoreInto the Dax, Bob Welch
In the fractured remains of North America, young bioscientist Kiley Van is hunted by the Elect, a theocratic regime bent on exploiting the Earth in defiance of the changing climate that has unraveled civilization and devastated the natural world. On the run and desperate to understand why she has been […]
Read MoreVigil, George Saunders
With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time—the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress—and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the […]
Read MoreMad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta
Myung and her sister Laleh are the sole inhabitants of the whale of babel—until Myung flees, beginning an adventure that will spin her through dreams, memories, and myths. Read more at Penguin Random House.
Read MoreECO24/25: The Year’s Best Speculative Fiction, Marissa van Uden
Click here to return to the world ecofiction series About the Books You can read more about the ECO24 and ECO25 anthologies at Violet Lichen, a new imprint of Apex Book Company. Run by Marissa van Uden, Violet Lichen publishes dark, literary, weird books and focuses on speculative ecofiction, weird […]
Read MoreHum, Helen Phillips
Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities. Read more at the author’s website.
Read MoreThe Wilderness, Angela Flournoy
As five friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic, and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life. Read more at HarperCollins.
Read MoreHemlock, Melissa Faliveno
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel. Read more at Hachette Book Group.
Read MoreIndie Corner – JD Grant
It was great to recently virtually meet some local people involved in the editing, authoring and publishing of a novel called Flowers for Gaia (by JD Grant), published by OC Publishing. Author royalties will be donated to youth programming at Ecology Action Centre (where I also volunteer), a environmental charity […]
Read MoreThe Briars, Sarah Crouch
The USA Today bestselling author of Middletide returns with a lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own. Read more at Simon & Schuster.
Read MoreAccelerated Growth Environment, Lauren C. Teffeau
Dr. Jorna Benton is proud to be the Principal Scientist for the Climasphere, a massive, sea-going ecological nursery capable of supporting nearly every biome on Earth. On its inaugural mission to restore and re-wild collapsing ecosystems along the Atlantic coast, Jorna manages the Climasphere’s habitat and harvest, while her […]
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