Coming April 25, 2017 from Tor Books: It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a new adult novel from Cory Doctorow. In the future, anyone can print up anything that they need to survive. A communist named Hubert, Etc falls in love with a rich heiress named Natalie, and […]
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Bad Atmosphere – A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis
Author: © Don Ogden Publisher/Ordering: Levellers Press Publication Date: October 5, 2016 Type: Poetry and Prose Social Media: Blog – Website Bad Atmosphere this is not what it was supposed to be how many fields ago, clear blue and clouds billowing and soft breeze, dancing leaves us wondering if […]
Read MoreAmerican War, Omar El Akkad
This award-winning journalist, until recently with The Globe and Mail, turns to fiction with a debut novel set in a not-too-distant America – ravaged by environmental calamities, dwindling resources and population displacement – that has fractured and descended into a second civil war. Considering the country’s current political and social […]
Read MoreFlip the Bird, Kym Brunner
Gr 7 Up—Scoot over, Don Calame—Brunner is about to join you on your perch. This is not a book for the squeamish. It’s about falconry at its finest, but it is also about much more than that. On his way to capture his first hawk, Mercer Buddie meets the girl […]
Read MoreHot Season, Susan DeFreitas
The three main characters in Hot Season, the debut novel by former Prescott resident, Susan DeFreitas, are idealistic students at a college known for its environmental programs. They struggle with their idealism, daily living, and how to make the country a better place. –DCourier In the high desert of Arizona, […]
Read MoreTake Wing and Fly Here, Priyanka Kumar
Take Wing and Fly Here follows two avid birders who have set out on their “Big Year,” which is a personal challenge to spot and identify as many bird species as possible in one year. She explores the reasons that people collect such sightings and the impacts it can have […]
Read MoreTreeVolution, Tara Campbell
Campbell is the recipient of the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ 2016 Larry Neal Writers’ Award, Adult Fiction and 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist. …exciting, entertaining, thought-provoking, with an upside-down look at the current plague of people on our planet. A must-read for fans […]
Read MoreThe Willows, Algernon Blackwood
Discover The Willows Back to the Dragonfly Library I asked the WeirdLit subreddit about their recommendations for ecological weird fiction and received a great number of suggestions. Many of the recs were more like short stories or novellas, rather than novels; to whit, one of them, The Willows, by Algernon […]
Read MoreWondering, the Way Is Made – Luke F.D. Marsden
Goodreads Reviews Luke F. D. Marsden’s road novel, Wondering, the Way is Made, is a captivating literary journey through South America for wanderers and wonderers. A formative experience in Africa opens the eyes of Joss Douglas to the flaws in his meticulously scheduled way of life. Some years later, in […]
Read MoreBorne, Jeff VanderMeer
In Borne, the epic new novel from Jeff VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed, bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict—and […]
Read MoreSnow Summer, Kit Peel
Two years ago writer Kit Peel returned home to his family farm on the hills above Pateley Bridge after years abroad to set up NiddFest, a literary festival in Nidderdale celebrating books on nature. He’s just published his written his first novel, Snow Summer, a classic children’s novel of old-fashioned […]
Read MoreThe Terranauts, T.C. Boyle
Ultimately, human emotions eclipse the project’s “noble experiment” premise and things begin to fall apart. What does that portend for the possible colonization of the moon or Mars, where pioneers would live in similar facilities? “It says that with global warming, the massive dislocation of peoples, tribal warfare and battles […]
Read MoreBeef, Mat Blackwell
From one of Australia’s most-awarded comedy writers, Beef explores desire and faithfulness in a dystopian future Australia where bizarre cults thrive, where music is advertising, where psychics are out of the closet, and where meat is no longer murder. Thanks to the author, Mat Blackwell, for writing to us about […]
Read MoreMinus Tide, Kevin Ostedal
Over a decade ago, when I was chief editor of Jack Magazine, issues would have themes, whether South African poetry or Gregory Corso or Philip Whalen or science fiction and fantasy–all of these usually punctuated with narratives about nature. When I closed the magazine and opened Moon Willow Press, I […]
Read MoreSilvana, Belinda Mellor
Part I. The Greening The Greening is the first part of Silvana–a series of mythopoeic fantasy novels set in a land where humanity respects and relies on nature for all that is good, and that is contrasted in the neighbouring land, where greed has driven the population to cause widespread […]
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