An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures–as only he can–the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreLeaphorn & Chee Series, Anne Hillerman & Tony Hillerman
Leaphorn & Chee is a series started by Tony Hillerman. When he died, his daughter, author Anne Hillerman, took over the series. A moderator at our Google newsgroup, Charlene D’Avanzo, calls this an environmental mystery series. According to Charlene: I call them environmental mysteries – novels in which the natural […]
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2050: A Future History – Series, J. Zornado
Thanks to author J. Zornado, professor of English at Rhode Island College, for news of his trilogy 2050: A Future History. He writes: The overarching narrative is a meditation on knowing. It is also a projection about where things are headed from here, given our obsessions with AI, cloning, and […]
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Through the Eyes of a Stranger, Will Bonsall
A picture of a sustainable future realm contrasted with one much like our own. Wonderful heartwarming plot, eye-opening setting, and timeless topics. This book might well suit readers from 10 years old on. It’s a tale of escape from a distopic empire to a wondrous contrasting country, both set half […]
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Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha
Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, ‘It’s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.’ Our radical imaginations are under […]
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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson
Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science […]
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Kaboom!, Brian Adams
We are pleased to showcase Brian Adams’ newest book KABOOM!, a YA eco-novel. We interviewed Brian after the publication of his recent novel Love in the Time of Climate Change, which won the Forward Review IndieFab 2014 gold medal in the humor category. Congrats to Brian on his newest endeavor. […]
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Kissing Frogs, Alisha Sevigny
Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Scott has a secret: she used to be a nerd — a big one — a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating […]
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Listen, Francesca Varela
In Listen Francesca tells us the story of May. May is a piano-genius college freshman who dreams of becoming a brilliant composer. In her school’s practice rooms she meets Conner, an undeniably unattractive junior, and she is immediately captivated by his raw musicality on the piano. As May tries to […]
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Fracture: Taylor Brorby, Stefanie Brook Trout
Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America In the past decade, fracking for natural gas has brought rapid change to landscapes and communities across the country. A new anthology of writing on the subject, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, investigates its nature, extent, and […]
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The Girl at the Center of the World, Austin Aslan
As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her friendships, and her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid–the force whose presence caused global devastation–but suffers regret over what she must do to survive. An […]
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The Mercy Journals, Claudia Casper
I got a chance to meet Claudia at one of her book launches, and she is a warm, down-to-earth person who filled the room with hugs, laughter, and soul. We will be talking again soon when I interview her about The Mercy Journals. The novel offers a view into the […]
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Mercedes Wore Black, Andrea Brunais
Florida Politics. The only thing predictable is the unpredictability. When Janis is fired from her job at the newspaper, she focuses on the causes that matter to her. The environment and the economy. That embroils her in the 2014 election. When her good friend Mercedes encounters danger and is brutally […]
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All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse. -Goodreads Tech culture’s strange relationship with nature takes centre stage in All the Birds in the Sky, a vivid, genre-blending novel from a writer who is clearly one to watch. Jumping skillfully from science fiction to fantasy and […]
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