Water rations are down to one gallon per person per day… the mayor is proposing digging a trench to the Pacific Ocean… dried out West Coast cities are crumbling and being abandoned by the east… and in Portland, Oregon, water is declared a communal right but hoarding and riots persist. […]
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Kamesh Ramakrishna, a consulting software architect in Massachusetts, United States, combined his fascination for history, archaeology, science and philosophy to write his first novel, The Last Kaurava, which interprets the Mahabharata through events that encompasses environmental and sociological issues among other topics that are relevant to the present-day world. –The […]
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A mystery at sea plunges forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws into deadly waters. When a boat is found deserted off the California coast, it looks to be a simple fishing accident. But there is nothing ordinary going on here. The geologists track the strange incident to an even […]
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It’s 2053 and climate change has left billions homeless and starving – easy prey for the pandemics that sweep across the globe, scything through the refugee populations. Easy prey, too, for the violent gangs and people-smugglers who thrive in the crumbling world where ‘King Death’ reigns supreme. -Goodreads Adam Nevill […]
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Sci-fi novel with a touch of northern climate change is one of year’s best. –Newsminer The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. […]
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From Akashic Books’s Infamous imprint comes Steve Saville’s Sunfail (Nov.) which stars New York City subway electrician and former Special Forces soldier Jake Quinn as he fights a conspiracy by the world’s richest men to destroy the world.” — Library Journal “Steven Savile’s fear-inducing novel of apocalyptic proportions, Sunfail, will […]
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In Kingsley, Carolyn O’Neal explores the frightening result of decades of toxins in the environment through the life of a fourteen year old boy named Kingsley Smith. Kingsley is a sweet boy, but he’s too fat to wear swim trunks and too poor to play golf. After colony collapse disorder […]
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ECOTONES is a pro-am anthology of speculative fiction featuring fourteen tales from best-sellers, award-winners and nominees, established talents and up-coming authors, the fourth annual anthology from SFFWorld.com. Ecotones exist wherever different ecosystems make contact. Where forest meets field… where the land meets the sea… where swamp gives way to jungle… […]
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A hidden gem my wife picked up at our local library book sale. Contains some amazing works of short speculative fiction with environmental themes from a dazzling variety of legendary writers: Bradbury, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Herbert, Ballard, Asimov, and more. Even a story by Edgar Allen Poe. Diverse and thought-provoking! -Goodreads […]
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200 years from now, the world, in the grip of global warming, is eerily like ours, only much worse. The ultra-rich, a.k.a. the One Percenters, live in protected areas while the rest of humanity faces pollution, plagues and early death. The One Percenters are the only ones who can afford […]
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The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea by Lorna Crozier, Ian McAllister (photographer) A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time’s best nature photographers […]
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Water. It covers almost three-quarters of the planet, comprises more than half the human body, and has become the most coveted resource on Earth. Amaya de los Santos survived the typhoon that left her an orphan. Now she scrapes by as an ice poacher, illegally harvesting fresh water for an […]
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In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pair of unlikely father figures. […]
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From Green Writers Press: So, this dude comes up from the city to take an eco-writing workshop at a little college in way-northern Vermont, where I happen to teach watershed analysis, wildlife habitat, advanced chain saw, and self-defense for women. He’s not my type–actually, no man has been my type for a […]
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Book 1: 2022 Using an uncanny ability to harvest information to predict the future, philanthropist Richard foresees a dark future for the human race. This future is exacerbated by the return of cold-war-like tensions, sophisticated terrorist organizations, and new controls on information flow. In addition to espionage and murder, the […]
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