Meet Casey, a community college professor with OCD (Obsessive Climate Disorder). While navigating the zaniness of teaching, he leads a rag-tag bunch of climate activists, lusts after one of his students, and smokes a little too much pot. Quirky, socially awkward and adolescent-acting, our climate change obsessed hero muddles his […]
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Interview with Austin Aslan, The Islands at the End of the World
Austin Aslan’s The Islands at the End of the World is getting great reviews. In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their […]
Read MoreInterview with Jennifer Harrington, Spirit Bear
Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction talks with Jennifer Harrington, a Toronto-based illustrator, graphic designer, and author of children’s eco-books. Her book Spirit Bear is a wonderful fictional trek into the Great Bear Rainforest and is published by Eco Books 4 Kids. See the site for […]
Read MoreInterview with Peter Romilly, Cli-fidelity
Thanks again for doing an interview with Cli-Fi Books. We first talked last October about your book 500 Parts per Million. It was a great interview, and I was intrigued by your comparison of proactive youth in the 1960s compared to modern day–especially now when we face the biggest environmental […]
Read MoreInterview with Jim Gilbert, The Admiral
I wholly enjoyed reading this adventure story, a thrilling journey and ride with wonderful character development and a highly contagious heroine, Aqual. It’s a magnificent novel–something that many first-time authors do not achieve. The Admiral is a post-apocalyptic novel about a community of people trying to survive a climate-changed world […]
Read MoreInterview with Morgan Nyberg, The Raincoast Saga
Morgan Nyberg is the author of a few titles, including two novels thus far in his Raincoast Saga. Intrigued by these books being set where I live, albeit far in the future, I asked Morgan for an interview and he politely agreed. For the record, I greatly enjoyed reading both […]
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 MoreInterview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
Updated announcement: This novel is being made into a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce. When […]
Read MoreInterview with Sarah Holding of the SeaBEAN Trilogy
Thanks so much to Sarah Holding, author of the SeaBEAN Trilogy, for this wonderful interview. We are thrilled to talk to this awesome and talented writer who is very active in her community. Mary: I recently did a little study at Eco-fiction.com (now Dragonfly.eco) in a project where I categorized […]
Read MoreInterview with Lisa Devaney of In Ark: A Promise of Survival
Mary of Eco-fiction.com recently interviewed first-time novelist Lisa Devaney about her title In Ark: A Promise of Survival. Your book, In Ark: A Promise of Survival, is set in a future world. How did you imagine this future scenario? I’ve always been intrigued by what might happen in the future. […]
Read MoreInterview with John Atcheson of A Being Darkly Wise
I had the pleasure of interviewing author John Atcheson after reading his novel A Being Darkly Wise, which is the first part of a trilogy. I read this novel in the course of less than a week, deeply hooked on what it was saying and where it was leading us. […]
Read MoreInterview with Tony White of Shackleton’s Man Goes South
Tony White Tony White is the author of Shackleton’s Man Goes South, which he wrote while a writer in residence at the Science Museum in London. 1. You were writer in residence at the Science Museum in London. Were you chosen among others to fulfill this writing position? Thank you […]
Read MoreInterview with Dr. Richard L. Bailey, Author of Stormy
Dr. Richard L. Bailey, author of novel Stormy, granted us an interview about his studies in climate change and his inspiration for writing this novel. 1. What led you to write this novel? I wrote the novel to create images in people’s minds of what is very likely to happen […]
Read MoreInterview with Peter Romilly, Author of 500 Parts Per Million
We were very fortunate to hear from Scottish author Peter Romilly, who wrote 500 Parts Per Million, a title we recently listed here. His sequel Cli-Fidelity will be published soon. Peter was an economics teacher and researcher for many years, but now writes novels. His fiction focuses on one of […]
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