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The Last Polar Bear, Dana Rodney

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 12, 2023 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 12, 2023

The Last Polar Bear is part wildlife adventure, part nature narrative, and a thought-provoking story of the Arctic’s last polar bear and the Inuit woman … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Fauna | Tagged Dana Rodney | Leave a reply

The Rooftop Garden, Menaka Raman-Wilms

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 10, 2023 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 10, 2023

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Features, Mystery, World Eco-Fiction | Tagged Menaka Raman-Wilms | Leave a reply

Limberlost, Robbie Arnott

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on November 14, 2022 by Mary WoodburyNovember 14, 2022

The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fauna, Historical | Tagged Robbie Arnott | Leave a reply

Salt and Skin, Eliza Henry-Jones

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on October 31, 2022 by Mary WoodburyOctober 31, 2022

Drawing on records of the witch trials and folk tales of the northern isles, Salt and Skin is full of tenderness, magic, and yearning. It’s a … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Historical, Woman's | Tagged Eliza Henry-Jones | Leave a reply

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on October 24, 2022 by Mary WoodburyOctober 24, 2022

A re-imagined Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield story, set in the Appalachian Mountains, this large book (over 600 pages) explores the life of a boy born … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Historical, Literary | Tagged Barbara Kingsolver | Leave a reply

In the Company of Men, Véronique Tadjo

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on September 15, 2022 by Mary WoodburySeptember 15, 2022

Two boys go hunting in a forest, shooting down bats and cooking them over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional | Tagged Véronique Tadjo | Leave a reply

The Last Quarter of the Moon, Zijian Chi

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on August 3, 2022 by Mary WoodburyAugust 3, 2022

Translated by Bruce Humes, this novel, first published in 2005, is being re-released by Penguin Random House, re-categorized in the genre of eco-fiction. In The … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fauna, Historical, Literary | Tagged Bruce Holmes, Zijian Chi | 2 Replies

All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on July 11, 2022 by Mary WoodburyJuly 11, 2022

Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. All the Horses of Iceland tells the … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Fauna, Historical | Tagged Sarah Tolmie | Leave a reply

Valli, Sheela Tomy

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on July 11, 2022 by Mary WoodburyJuly 11, 2022

Originally published in Malayalam, in June 2021, Valli is Sheela Tomy’s debut novel. It’s being translated into English by Jayasree Kalathil. According to Financial Express, … Read more

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Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on April 13, 2022 by Mary WoodburyApril 13, 2022

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Speculative | Tagged Yoko Tawada | Leave a reply

Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on March 20, 2022 by Mary WoodburyMarch 20, 2022

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine’s Grey Zone, the no-man’s-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Contemporary, Cultural/Regional, Dystopian, Fauna | Tagged Andrey Kurkov | Leave a reply

After the Dragons, Cynthia Zhang

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on March 10, 2022 by Mary WoodburyMarch 16, 2022

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, LGTBQ+, Speculative, Spotlight, Spotlights-Youth | Tagged Cynthia Zhang | Leave a reply

Indie Corner – Barbara Newman

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 14, 2022 by Mary WoodburyMarch 20, 2022

Back to the Indie Corner series This month’s Indie Corner explores Barbara Newman’s The Dreamcatcher Codes. Barbara Newman always wanted to be a cowgirl. Growing up … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Indie Corner, Interviews, Woman's, Women Working in Nature and the Arts, YA/Teen | Tagged Barbara Newman | Leave a reply

The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 10, 2022 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 10, 2022

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more

Posted in Adventure, All, Articles, Books, Classic, Cultural/Regional, Discover, Fantasy, Features, World Eco-Fiction | Tagged George RR Martin | Leave a reply

A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger

Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction Posted on January 3, 2022 by Mary WoodburyJanuary 3, 2022

Darcie Little Badger introduced herself to the world with Elatsoe. In A Snake Falls to Earth, she draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to … Read more

Posted in All, Books, Cultural/Regional, Fantasy, Indigenous, LGTBQ+, Magical Realism, Myth & Folklore, Science Fiction | Tagged Darcie Little Badger | Leave a reply

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