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Spotlight – Thomas R. Weaver

About the Book The October world eco-fiction spotlight is on Thomas R. Weaver’s Artificial Wisdom (initially published by Chainmaker Press, 2024). The author independently published the novel but recently agreed to sell the rights to Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book will have a slightly revised […]

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Dusk – Robbie Arnott

Dusk continues Arnott’s tradition of exploring myth, human relationships and the natural world. Set sometime in the early 19th-century, Dusk is a Western of a different sort: reflective and understated. It is marked by the twins’ relentless yet quiet struggle to prove they are unlike their parents, prove they are […]

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Metamorphosis, Sheree Renée Thomas, et al.

Edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and curated by Grist, this anthology of innovated and visionary stories are winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. These stories are grounded in soul, a deep communion with the belief that we can—and must—rebuild our relationship with the planet. -Omar El Akkad, author […]

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A Place Unmade, Carla Seyler

A Place Unmade (Black Rose Writing) takes the reader on a provocative journey into the dangers lurking in our decreasing lack of biodiversity and patentable genetics. See an interview with author Carla Seyler at The Advocate. A Place Unmade, her environmental thriller released in May by Texas publishing house Black […]

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Sylvan Dread, Richard Gavin

As a meditation on the forces of predation and parasitism, monstrous fecundity and decay, and those hidden folk who occupy the spaces between the branches, Sylvan Dread evokes the primeval wood—the place where all dreams and nightmares begin. In this isolate copse we witness the excavation of abominations long earthbound, […]

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Any Human Power, Manda Scott

From a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futures with a radical compassion, comes the story of a family at the heart of a political crisis and the ensuing uprising of a disenfranchised generation. A family that harnesses the skills and stories needed for real change, if they […]

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Turning the Tide Spotlight – Jane Calame

This month’s Turning the Tide spotlight is on Jane Calame, author of Our Earth (Atmosphere Press), a children’s book about sustainability. The book is illustrated by Daniela Frongia. Our Earth is an upbeat, rhyming guide to sustainability for little ones! From water conservation to recycling, this book offers up healthy […]

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Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago, a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years—until now. And it’s the day he met Mal, […]

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Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner

“Part espionage and part existential thriller, Creation Lake dives deep into the world of ideology, environmental activism, and ultimately, the nature of identity itself.” See more at TypeBooks.

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Spotlight – Sarah Brooks

About the Book “Vividly imagined and deftly paced, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands asks us to reconsider our place within the natural world amid a backdrop of capitalism and empire. Brooks has penned an elegant novel that is at once thrilling and transcendent. Also, there is a really […]

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Playground, Richard Powers

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard […]

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Waiting for Al Gore, Bob Katz

Waiting for Al Gore (is a fish-out-water drama that blends the urgencies of environmental activism with the folly of self-help bombast, featuring an ensemble cast worthy of a Wes Anderson film. See more at Flexible Press. Waiting For Al Gore is an object lesson about the importance of trying, no […]

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Blue Lake, Jeffrey D. Boldt

An impressive, wonderfully detailed legal thriller showing the best and worst of humanity…Boldt is a retired administrative law judge and passionate about justice and the environment, and this shows on every page of this remarkable novel. It’s no surprise that the courtroom scenes are so well handled. Jason is a […]

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Lost at Windy River, Trina Rathgeber

Colorist: Jillian Dolan; illustrator: Alina Pete In 1944, thirteen-year-old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family’s trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young Indigenous girl defies the odds and endures nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. Ilse faces many […]

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Love is for the Birds, Diane Owens Prettyman

In the wake of the hurricane, Bird Isle residents fear the Aransas Wildlife Refuge will not be ready for the whooping cranes’ annual migration south. Seeing that Jack has important connections and a love for the island, they enlist him to help restore the habitat of the endangered cranes before […]

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