Category Archives: Dystopian
The High House, Jessie Greengrass
The water is rising around a coastal hideaway in which five people, including a small child, are trapped, as civilisation is engulfed by flood. –The Spectator … Read more
Redder Days, Sue Rainsford
…One wonders if there wasn’t something in the air over the past few years that contributed to Redder Days’ sense of foreboding. Certainly, given the … Read more
Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson
The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a … Read more
Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian … Read more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity … Read more
Loveoid, JL Morin – Review
Loveoid by JL Morin Release date: December 6, 2020 Genre: eco-fiction, literary fiction, speculative fiction Price: $11.95; 276 pages ISBN: 978-1-941861-54-7 Available at Gardeners, Bertrams, … Read more
Leave the World behind, Rumaan Alam
When the end of the world as we know it comes about in Rumaan Alam’s gripping third novel, Leave the World Behind, the two families … Read more
Stillicide, Cynan Jones
Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock … Read more
Beyond What Separates Us, R. A. Morris
Four strangers from distant parts of the world struggle to survive on a planet torn apart by war, greed and disease. Living under drastically different … Read more
Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity … Read more
The Island Will Sink, Briohny Doyle
In a not-too-distant future perpetually on the brink of collapse, catastrophe is our most popular entertainment. The energy crisis has come and gone. EcoLaw is … Read more
A Diary in the Age of Water, Nina Munteanu
Reviewed by Mary Woodbury Nina Munteanu’s newest novel, A Diary in the Age of Water, deftly follows four generations of women fighting for—and exploring scientifically, … Read more
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook
Could this be the great climate change novel of our time? Buzz is building fast for the epic debut novel of Diane Cook, which, despite … Read more
Dry, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story … Read more