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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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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The sea has invaded its boundaries and its inhabitants reside in a towering structure called the Bombadrome, which hovers above the barren land. Theirs is an artificially equated society; they lead technologically directed lives; they have no memory of the past. They don’t remember that this place was once called […]
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A near-future, sci-fi mystery reminiscent of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and inspired by John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series, in which a salvage diver discovers the body of the most infamous man in the Florida yoreshore, putting her in the crosshairs of both feds and corporate mafias. Read […]
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Author Kimberly Christensen has reviewed a lot of children’s and YA eco-books for this site, and she now has her own book out: The Brink Box, so I decided to feature her in Dragonfly.eco’s Turning the Tide (for younger readers). One reader describes the book: A captivating tale about the […]
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This collection of illustrated poems explores those risks inherent in utopia and the idea that through science alone we can solve our environmental problems. Through femme and queer perspectives, Smith lays bare the social implications of a technological savior, and creates a blueprint for co-opting technology in the name of […]
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The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, edited by André M. Carrington, includes weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more. Here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading […]
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Featuring works by rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity’s deep relationships with other species and of our communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world—all told through the lens of the fantastic. Ranging from literary science fiction and magical […]
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Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, What A Fish Looks Like gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change, wondering who is going to love us when there are not, in […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m thrilled to talk with P. Finian Reilly about his new novel Ice’s End. It’s only the second time the world eco-fiction series has traveled to Antarctica—the first being a conversation with Ilija Trojanow about his novel Lamentations of Zeno. About […]
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