The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more
Category Archives: Discover
The Middle Earth Universe, J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Dragonfly, and I wanted to make it special on this fifth anniversary. Perhaps … Read more
Ecological Weird Fiction
In light of the Discover feature here at Dragonfly, I began writing what would turn into three articles, between 2017 and 2018, about ecological weird … Read more
Paradise Lost, John Milton
It’s been a while since I have had time to write a new Discover book feature. Partly it is just that this eco-fiction project is … Read more
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
I was happy to find this old book at the Value Village in Burquitlam. I have this book on Kindle, but can’t pass up such … Read more
Minus Tide, Kevin Ostedal
Over a decade ago, when I was chief editor of Jack Magazine, issues would have themes, whether South African poetry or Gregory Corso or Philip … Read more
A White Umbrella in Mexico, Francis Hopkinson Smith
I found this book among a collection of “The Works of F. Hopkinson Smith” at Brown’s Books in Burnaby. I didn’t buy the whole collection … Read more
The Faith of a Coast Salish Indian, Diamond Jenness
These days we would say First Nations, but during anthropologist Diamond Jenness’s day–this book first published in 1955–the term Indian was widely used when referring … Read more
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is credited as an example of fiction that changed the way we think about a major world problem or issue, … Read more
In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker
The story behind this book is that I discovered it when I lived in California. I wish I could remember where I found this book, … Read more
The Other Side of the Mountain, Michael Bernanos
Michael Bernanos’s The Other Side of the Mountain is an awesome book, which I ordered used. The genre is weird fiction–I learned of the book … Read more
Eco-Fiction, Edited by John Stadler
Eco-fiction is a little gem that I believe is out of print. You can find a used copy on Amazon, Abe Books, and other places, … Read more
A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
This beautiful book of children’s poetry, another I found at the bookstore in Port Moody, was originally published in 1885 and “reflects a Scottish poet’s … Read more
Discover Specks
There is an interesting story behind this book. Back when I published an online literary magazine (Jack), and my maiden name was Sands, I worked … Read more
Dance of the Coyote, Bill Hotchkiss
Discover Dance of the Coyote Back to the new Discover feature I became enamored of Bill Hotchkiss accidentally. I was looking for a good book … Read more