Science Fiction

The Brink Box, Kimberly Christensen

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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Seed Beetle, Mahaila Smith

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, André M. Carrington

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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ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, Marissa Van Uden

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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What a Fish Looks Like, Hayati Beker

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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P. Finian Reilly, Ice’s End

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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The Unmapping, Denise S. Robbins

Denise S. Robbins’ The Unmapping (Bindery Books) is described in Madison Magazine as an imaginative ecofiction novel. New York City residents wake to find the power grid is down, their neighbors are missing and Manhattan’s Empire State Building in Brooklyn. There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each […]

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Indie Corner – Todd Medema

Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane (August 2025) is a story of hope and adapting to climate change—hidden inside an action-packed heist on the high seas. Inspired by the new genre of solarpunk, it tells the story of Moro, an ex-corporate heir, and a globe-spanning ensemble cast fighting for […]

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Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman

Not quite sci-fi, not quite dystopian, this superb literary novel defies categorization. Readers will shiver as they keep turning the pages. Audrey Schulman has once again written a spellbinding, original novel that never loses sight of its humanity.Read more at Europa Editions. The book is also listed at Jeff VanderMeer’s […]

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108: An Eco-Thriller, Dheepa R. Maturi

108: An Eco-Thriller, by Dheepa R. Maturi, is out in June 2025. While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At […]

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The Other Shore, Rebecca Campbell

From the winner of the 2023 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction comes a short story collection that radiates from the dark forests of the Pacific northwest. In ten tales, Rebecca Campbell’s exquisite prose channels ancient forest spirits, the lost ghosts of unknown fates, biological and technological transformations, and […]

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It’s Not the End of the World, Jonathan Parks-Ramage

From Bloomsbury: Shot through with biting wit, brutal gore, primal sex, and unexpected catharsis, It’s Not the End of the World is a nerve-shredding roller coaster of a novel that will leave readers shocked, heartbroken, and inspired to question their most firmly held convictions. What happens when our current battles […]

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All the Water in the World, Eiren Caffall

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. Read more at Macmillan. “Gripping…tense, de­­­lightful and rich with resonance.” –Scientific American “Captivating…The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent.” -Library Journal […]

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Indie Corner – Katy Wimhurst

Katy Wimhurst has had three collections of short stories published—An Orchid in My Belly Button (Elsewhen Press, 2025), Snapshots of the Apocalypse (Fly on the Wall Press, 2022), and Let Them Float (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her first book of visual eco poems was Fifty-One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press, 2023). She sometimes interviews writers for 3AM Magazine. More […]

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