Part of the Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga trilogy From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond…Determined to evade […]
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Thanks to author Steve Masover for the heads-up on this exciting new title. San Francisco activist Christopher Kalman has little to show for years spent organizing non-violent marches, speak-outs, blockades, and shutdowns for social and environmental justice. When a shadowy eco-saboteur proposes an attack on genetically engineered agriculture, Christopher is […]
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Thanks so much to Annelie Wendeberg for letting us know about her science fiction series 1/2986. Amy uses the latest IPCC report and newest publications on climate change as a basis for her world-building. She was also an environmental scientist for 20 years. Please see more at Amy’s website. Book […]
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Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction contains short stories about climate change collected by Lightspeed Magazine. The authors include John Joseph Adams (editor), Paolo Bacigalupi, Robert Silverberg, Alan Dean Foster, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, Angela Penrose, Chris Bachelder , Gregory Benford, Nicole Feldringer, Jason Gurley, […]
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The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal. -Goodreads Part of Juchau’s success emerges from the delicacy of her evocations of the natural world. Another part arises from her wry observations of the way people behave and interact. But […]
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In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country’s conservation movement, and Ray, an army deserter turned surfer, are squatting in a starlet’s abandoned mansion. Most “Mojavs,” prevented by armed vigilantes from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to […]
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Thanks so much for T.L. Zalecki introducing her newest novel (which is getting excellent ratings and reviews) to us. In a future world where rising ocean levels swallow coastal cities and people scramble for resources on an overpopulated earth, the survival of the human race depends on biogenetic research to […]
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The Dragon Dreamer is a fast-paced adventure with flying dragons, an undersea world, and an unexpected friendship. “Fear ran up his spine like an icy claw. The legend was alive . . . ” It’s a young adult science fantasy layered for ages 9 to adult. Goodreads Reviews Back to […]
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Thanks to Michael J. DeLuca for the heads-up on Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 33, which he guest-edited. LCRW #33 approaches its theme of humanity’s relationship with the earth with a little humor, a touch of horror, and seventeen different kinds of understanding. Includes multiple award winner Sofia Samatar, Nebula […]
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Equal parts Moby-Dick retelling, environmental cautionary tale, and coming-of-age story, Strasser’s fantastical SF epic blends disparate pieces into a harmonious whole. The saga begins with 17-year-old Ishmael setting off from a ravaged, dying Earth for life aboard a large fishing trawler on the planet Cretacea. Filled with luscious depictions of life at sea that […]
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An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf Published […]
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Discover how writing fiction can make the world a better place. This book offers instruction, inspiration and prompts for writing climate fiction, which is speculative fiction that focuses primarily on the ways that climate change is transforming our world. Explore how plot, place, and character development can make climate change […]
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It is the year 2027, a time when the Earth’s land masses have been inundated by eight metres of rising sea – the impact of climate change being even more catastrophic than scientists had ever predicted – and the world is in the grip of a new faith, Delugion, the […]
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Thanks to author Carlos Calles for letting us know about his climate change novel, La ilusión del caos, or The Illusion of Chaos. Carlos also runs the website Resortera, a platform to support and promote young writers. La ilusión del caos es una historia de valentía y sabiduría, pues los […]
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Aref Al-Amri does not want to leave Oman. He does not want to leave his elementary school, his friends, or his beloved grandfather, Siddi. He does not want to live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his parents will go to graduate school. His mother is desperate for him to pack […]
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