Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes: Since Odysseus’ curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century […]
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The Unfamiliar Garden is a science fiction horror novel that features fungi (also a new category in our database)!
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In my new quest to add more fungi fiction to the database, here’s a short story by William Hope Hodgson, which I read a few years ago when I began to read more ecologically weird fiction. You can read the story online here. Two men are sailing in the northern […]
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A collection of fungal wonders…and terrors. In this new anthology, writers reach into the rich territory first explored by William Hope Hodgson a century ago: the land of the fungi. Stories range from noir to dark fantasy, from steampunk to body horror. Join authors such as Jeff VanderMeer, Laird Barron, […]
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Ambergis is the hardcover volume including the three books in his cult series that includes City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. The new volume came out in 2020, even though its books were published before the Southern Reach trilogy and Borne. “Ambergris is also the New […]
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This slim, literary dystopia explores a mother and daughter’s relationship in a setting ravaged by climate change. –Buzzfeed With keen insight and biting prose, Premee Mohamed delivers a deeply personal tale in this post-apocalyptic hopepunk novella that reflects on the meaning of community and asks what we owe to those […]
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Brit+Co named The Book of Dog one of 2018’s best feminist books. t’s the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and a mysterious yellow fog is making its way across the world, sowing chaos in its path. Mt. Fuji has erupted. The Euphrates has run dry. In America the […]
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Sure, some say fungi will save the world, but how about a story where they hijack our brains instead? In this highly original eco-thriller, an escaped Amazonian fungus starts doing exactly that. –Earther.com What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon […]
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