Suspense/Thriller

Dust Up (Series), Jon McGoran

Thanks to Jon McGoran for letting us know about his novel Dust Up, which is part of his biotech series. Following up on his critically acclaimed ecological thrillers Drift and Deadout, author Jon McGoran’s latest novel, Dust Up (April 19, Tor/Forge Books), continues to explore new ground. Once again, McGoran […]

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Mr Green Jeans, Chris McGee

Thanks to Harvard Square Editions for sending their forthcoming publication, Mr Green Jeans, an eco-fiction adventure. The novel comes out March 24, 2016. A married couple throws caution to the wind to help the planet. Traveling from the Midwest to Southwest in a converted VW van, they clandestinely exhibit their […]

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Badlands, C.J. Box

C.J. Box and Craig Johnson get lumped together a lot in the mass crime-fiction consciousness. Both write series novels set in Wyoming, featuring Old West heroes who aren’t entirely comfortable making their way through the New West. Both weave contemporary environmental and cultural issues into their work, and both have […]

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Lost Girl, Adam Nevill

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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Sunfail, Steven Savile

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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Eco-fiction, John Stadler

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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The Percipience Series, Ken Kroes

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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Silence and Song, Melanie Rae Thon

The convergence of two disparate events—a random murder in Seattle and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl—catalyze the startling, eruptive form of the concluding piece,“requiem: home: and the rain, after.” Narrated in first person by the killer’s sister and plural first person by the “liquidators” who come to the Evacuation Zone […]

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Consequence, Steve Masover

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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The World Without Us, Mireille Juchau

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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Rising Tide (Sirens #1), T.L. Zalecki

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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Warmth, The Delugion Trilogy, Sam Wolfson

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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Friendswood, A Novel: Rene Steinke

I was interested in making people aware of these environmental issues, but also how they affect people, and the stories about what happens after the incidents. -Author Rene Steinke, Houstonia Magazine Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oil rigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and […]

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Garapaima: A Monster Fish Novel, Mark Spitzer

A twenty-foot-long, mutated monster-fish is loose in Phantom Loon Lake, Ontario, thanks to a top secret government conspiracy to design a Freak Species of Mass Destruction! Crabby old angler Jack Nadler is thrown together with a whacko cast of cartoony characters, including the most grizzly professor to ever wrestle alligators, […]

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Three Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville

London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a […]

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