The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s […]
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Having been shot down over the North Dakota glacier, two Space Habs astronauts find themselves paralyzed by the Earth’s gravity and at the center of a ruthless manhunt by the United States government. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly and radically warming the Earth’s climate. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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For centuries, men had lived miles beneath the ground in order to survive the great Ice Block that had submerged the earth. In an attempt to resume human contact, Jim Barnes, his father and several other daring men emerge from a subterranean New York to cross the frozen Atlantic. Reviews […]
Read MoreNina Munteanu’s Angel of Chaos is a gripping blend of big scientific ideas, cutthroat politics and complex yet sympathetic characters that will engage readers from its thrilling opening to its surprising and satisfying conclusion. -Hayden Trenholm, Aurora-winning writer of The Steele Chronicles Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreA devastating disease. A world on the brink of violent change. And one woman who can save it or destroy it all. Julie Crane must confront the will of the ambitious virus lurking inside her to fulfill her final destiny as Darwin’s Paradox, the key to the evolution of an […]
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Project Hieroglyph brings scientists and science fiction writers together to create positive visions of the future. From the Hieroglyph website: This anthology unites twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of “techno-optimism” that challenge us […]
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From Boing Boing: “Cartooning entomologist Jay Hosler‘s forthcoming young adult graphic novel Last of the Sandwalkers masterfully combines storytelling with science.” This upcoming graphic novel displays the life of beetles. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Thanks to author James Ellis for bringing to our attention his new climate change thriller, Super Bunker. From the author: Signs and warnings of global warming have been ignored. The pristine planet we once knew is quickly vanishing. Now Earth’s citizens must build underground shelters in order to survive. This […]
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A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, […]
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From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Note: This book is a free download at Smashwords. Thanks much to Mark Mann, the author, for bringing this YA fantasy to our attention. Twins Jack and Kaya live in a small seaside town in Australia. When they see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the […]
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Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]
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This book is set to come out November 1, 2014. A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for “internally displaced person or persons”) imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics […]
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Thanks to H.A. Swain for submitting information about her new YA novel Hungry: Excerpts from reviews: “Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver will flock to this story.” –School Library Journal “In a world where you take medication to ward off hunger and a supplement […]
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