Eco-literature needs to move beyond the sterile badgering of activism and delve deeper into human stories of subtlety. Written by Rajesh Subramanian Reprinted with permissions from The Wire India and Rajesh Subramanian Eco-literature includes the whole gamut of literary works, including fiction, poetry and criticism, which lay stress on […]
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Special Holiday Announcement
This site, along with Moon Willow Press, Eco-fiction’s Running in the Anthropocene Blog, and Eco-fiction’s Green Reads, will be on hold, for the most part, until late December. Our host is merging with another, so we’ll have new DNSs, and any changes made between now and then will be lost. […]
Read MoreClimate Change Novels Set in British Columbia
I have blogged before about Clara Hume’s book Back to the Garden, which Moon Willow Press published in late 2013. Clara Hume, an author local to British Columbia, begins the novel in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, just over the border from the Thompson-Okanagen-Similkameen-Kootenay regions of BC. In Back to […]
Read MoreThe Blue Dot Tour
If you look at our planet from space, it is a blue dot, a beautiful little blue dot. The David Suzuki Foundation, which has promoted environmentalism in Canada and around the world since 1990, recently did a “Blue Dot Tour” across the nation, featuring artists in different cities, from September […]
Read MoreThe Works of Arthur Herzog and a Talk with his Widow Leslie
The tradition of fiction about climate change goes way back–you could say all the way back to narratives of old that were spoken or written. The canon began before we knew more about our modern human-caused climate variations, even before sci-fi writers imagined such climate disasters. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia […]
Read MoreCli-fi: a Short Essay on its Worlds and its Importance
Copyright and written by Gregers Andersen, sent in 2014 to this site for publication after a personal discussion with its author. Because it has been plagiarized by the same individual twice now, I ask that you please respect the copyright and contact Gregers Andersen if you wish to reprint this […]
Read MoreDenialist and Skeptical Climate Change Novels
Climate change fiction seems to fall into one of two categories: 1) anthropogenic climate change fiction and b) other books about climate events but not necessarily climate change. Only two books have been reader-submitted that don’t fit into these categories. These books are listed below. Michael Chricton’s State of Fear […]
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