Bending the Boyne draws on 21st century archaeology to show the lasting impact when early metal mining and trade take hold along north Atlantic coasts. Carved megaliths and stunning gold artifacts, from the Pyrenees up to the Boyne, come to life in this researched historical fiction. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
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The Chosen, William Hatchett
From the author: One man, one planet, one destiny William Hatchett’s new novel, The Chosen, is a cosmic romp through space and time This is science fiction with a difference. The time machine in Hatchett’s novel is decorated with Willam Morris wallpaper and equipped with a drinks cabinets furnished with […]
Read MoreThe Truth, Michael Palin
I just found this book the morning after seeing Monty Python’s live reunion. This book was first published last year, but a new paperback version comes out August 19th, 2014. See Slant Magazine for one review, which states: Keith Mabbut, the protagonist of Michael Palin’s second novel, The Truth, represents, […]
Read MoreOut of the Depths, Noel Hodson
An “unputtabledownable” fact based drama, set in the Thames London estuary as global warming floods the coastal margins and billions of people worldwide grudgingly migrate to higher ground. What happens to London also occurs in New York and all coastal settlements. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreAD 2516: After Global Warming, Noel Hodson
Entered for The Whitbread First Novel Prize and reviewed by Brian Aldiss in The Times & The Guardian, who dubbed the author “That distinguished futurist”. AD2516 depicts the world re-born after the 2012 floods and pandemics in Noel Hodson’s first tale, OUT OF THE DEPTHS. It is a good read […]
Read MoreMake Room, Make Room!, Harry Harrison
The novel on which Soylent Green is based (there is no “soylent green is people” line in the actual novel), this book looks at a future world in which overpopulation and lack of natural resources cause environmental and societal collapse. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreBlue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Hugo Award for Best Novel (1997), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1997), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1997), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreGreen Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity’s struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreRed Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
Read MoreThe Grower’s Gift, Vanna Smythe
The future is bleak in the year 2102. The planet is in chaos and the weather patterns have completely shifted, turning most of the world into an uninhabited wasteland. Sixteen-year-old Maya has a gift, a power she thinks can heal the earth and make it habitable again. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
Read MoreThe Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Just published in July 2014, a new environmental polemic: The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People’s Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered […]
Read MoreDune Chronicles, Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert’s Dune Chronicles is a series of sci-fi classics that won Hugo and Nebula awards depicts water in a future world as scarce and costly. These books went on to become a successful mini-series. Goodreads Reviews Please see Frank Herbert’s son’s Brian Herbert’s continuance and additions to the Dune […]
Read MoreThe Wastelanders, Tim Hemlin
America is controlled by a corporate oligarchy known as the Water Cartel and warrior-priest Joey Hawke finds himself trapped between a mysterious geneticist amassing a clone army and a group of political fanatics convinced that a dead president will rise from his tomb to lead them to salvation. Goodreads Reviews […]
Read MoreTurtle Island, Gary Snyder
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. […]
Read MoreEcotopia, Ernest Callenbach
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival […]
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