See more at Flavorwire. The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. -Goodreads Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads
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Staying with the apocalyptic, David Williams’ When The English Fall is a quirky addition to the growing volume of novels that imagine the repercussions of climate change. A freak solar storm knocks out the power grid — the only community prepared to handle life without phones, petrol and electricity are […]
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Click here for information on the series. The New Inheritors is the most recent (#3) book. Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast […]
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Ronald Wright’s A Scientific Romance haunts me. A terrifying vision of the future that our current environmental negligence is galloping us toward, wrapped up in a Wellsian time travel story told with humour and pathos. Shades of Steinbeck, reminiscent of Kay, with the odd one-eyed troll. So well done. –The […]
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A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean’s oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air’s oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrialist J.E. Gelstrom is furiously empire-building. The US/USSR […]
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Kira has never listened to the rain on the roof, swum in a lake or seen a cloud. All of those things need water, and in Kira’s world nearly all of the water has disappeared due to the ecological disasters created generations earlier. What remains is strictly rationed by the […]
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Perspective is handled deftly by the author. As Arnott moves from fisherman Karl and his dome-headed seal, to the gin-swilling private detective, to the police sergeant being ruthlessly divorced by his wife, we are confronted by characters that are in equal measure, tough and beautiful. And importantly, Jack McAllister becomes […]
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These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk countryside, they bring together monstrous insects, ghostly lovers, soon-to-be extinct species, unexpected birds, and interstellar explorers, to form a coherent narrative about […]
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Fort Collins author Todd Mitchell starts every book he writes with a question. His latest middle grade novel, “The Last Panther,” takes place in an apocalyptic world in what used to be Florida. Two divided human populations deal with climate change and hurricanes that have flooded the coasts, creating swamps. […]
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Each book in my National Park Mystery Series is set in a specific park and seeks to capture and share with readers that park’s unique sense of place, beginning with that most iconic of America’s preserved landscapes, the Grand Canyon, and continuing, so far, with Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Yosemite […]
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See our world eco-fiction spotlight on this title at Dragonfly. The Story Collector treads the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen. With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Gaughan’s latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to […]
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Throughout its history, science fiction has imagined how humanity might meet its cosmic neighbors. How would the first contact with aliens go? Authors have imagined a variety of scenarios, from the desire for amicable partnership between humanoid species, to genocidal hostility between lifeforms that we barely recognize. In Sue Burke’s […]
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That Groff is pursuing a psychogeography of Florida, exploring both a state in the union and a state of mind, is made clear by her insistent figuring of the subconscious. The book is approximately thirty per cent underwater, and it is full of descents. –The New Yorker The New York […]
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Coming in August 2018 from Dark Horse Comics A new four-issue series, by award-winning artist David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist) and filmmaker, journalist, and comics writer Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Catwoman)…An eco-fiction tech-thriller where flora and fauna have begun to mutate, The Seeds is also a story of love beyond […]
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Part 1. Trail of Lightning See more in the series here. While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Goodreads Review […]
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