Tentacle, Rita Indiana
Rita Indiana’s Tentacle (originally published in Spanish as La mucama de Omicunlé) is a speculative text that has as much to say about the future as it … Read more
Category Archives: Speculative
FKA USA, Reed King
WB buys rights to new dystopia series, FKA USA, that imagines a fallen United States after climate change and “the final president.” –Den of Geek … Read more
Voice of the Elders, Greg Ripley
In the near future, the ravages of a warming planet have worsened, driving a new era of climate refugees. Rohini Haakonsen, a young Indian-American woman, … Read more
Back to the Garden, Clara Hume
Back to the Garden is in its 2nd edition (Dragonfly Publishing, 2018), launching the new Wild Mountain series. Clara Hume’s speculative ecofiction, Back to the … Read more
Glass and Gardens, Solarpunk Summers, Sarena Ulibarri et al.
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull … Read more
Stealing Air, Ralph Walker
Stealing Air is the second in the Rising Waters Series of near future short stories. Similar to Black Mirror or Close Encounters before it, this … Read more
The Devil’s Highway, Gregory Norminton
An ancient route links Britain’s deep past and far future in an ecologically aware tale spanning thousands of years –The Guardian Spanning centuries, and combining … Read more
Ice, Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan’s novel “Ice,” a fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe, was first published fifty years ago. … Read more
Weatherfronts, Sarah Butler et al.
As Peter Gingold, Director, Tipping Point, says: “This most grandiose and abstract subject is experienced at a very personal level, making its demands on the … Read more
The Ocean Container, Patrik Sampler
Thanks to the author for bringing this book to our attention. First it’s about climate change and the hostility Canada has shown toward those wishing … Read more
Code Blue, Marissa Slaven
Dystopian fiction comes and goes, and too many assume the trappings of formula productions; but the test of any superior story line lies in its … Read more
Interview with Cat Sparks, Ecopunk
I want to thank Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue and contributor to the upcoming Ecopunk! – Speculative Tales of Radical Futures anthology (Ticonderoga Publishing, … Read more
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, Phoebe Wagner et al.
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st … Read more
TreeVolution, 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 … Read more
Borne, 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 … Read more