On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in […]
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I read an interesting article at LitHub yesterday that used an on online AI-bot to write more of some of the world’s classic novels based upon first sentences. I decided to use the same Transformer tool to see what its response would be to some of my favorite eco-fiction stories, […]
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Click here to return to the series In November, we head to the USA, the first of the world eco-fiction travels to do so. Having spent a great amount of time in the Appalachian Mountains as a child (you can read more here), when I came across the anthology Mountains […]
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The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman (Little Brown, 2019) Middle Grade Fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen In rural Vermont, twins Addie and Amos lived at the edge of Maple Lake, a place that had been home to generations of their relatives. Everyone loved the lake, with its […]
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Join us over at Facebook for a link a day–October 23 to November 2, the Day of the Dead. These stories show how eco-horror and eco-weird literature and other arts deal with both the uncanny and the real. The featured image is one I took at the Vancouver Climate Strike […]
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Author: © John Popielaski Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Unsolicited Press Publication Date: December 4, 2018 Author Links: Author website Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Description: The primary narrative thread, Albert seeking a more authentic off-the-grid life in Maine, attempts to subvert that archetypal storyline of someone fleeing to the woods to escape […]
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Title: The Apocalypse Variations, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Author: © Marc Taro Holmes Ordering: print, e-book Publication Date: June 22, 2019 Author Link: website Back to the Dragonfly Library The Apocalypse Variations Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Marc Taro Holmes, CSPWC, SCA Copyright © 2019 Marc Taro Holmes […]
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Click here to return to the series In September, we look at another YA fiction novel–and yet another novel set in South Africa. Thanks to Stormbird Press and author Gila Green for the interview and essay. Stormbird Press, one of our affiliates, is a new publisher in Australia. As an […]
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Endangered by Eliot Schrefer Young adult fiction Fourteen-year-old Congolese American Sophie is set to spend the summer in the Congo with her mother, who runs a sanctuary for bonobos. Sophie arrives with mixed feelings. Although she spent her young childhood in the Congo, she now lives in the United States […]
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Click here to return to the series This month we look at Sita Brahmachari’s novel Where the River Runs Gold (Waterstones, July 2019), which takes place in an everyland, according to the author. But she told me that Meteore mountain–meaning between earth and sky–was inspired by Meteora in Greece and […]
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A few years ago I came across the Dark Mountain Project randomly. Once there, I thought–where can I find something like this near me? I remember at the time I had just been to Ireland and wished to meet other writers taking interest in local natural places as well as […]
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Me and Marvin Gardens by A.S. King Middle Grade Fiction Published by Scholastic Trades Review by Kimberly Christensen Everything around twelve-year-old Obe Devlin is changing. New subdivisions keep springing up behind his house on the acres of land that once belonged to the Devlin family. Obe’s former best friend, Tommy, […]
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Click here to return to the series This month we travel to the Niger Delta, and I am thrilled to talk with Helon Habila, the mind behind the novel Oil on Water, Travelers, and other great reads. About Oil on Water Set in the Niger Delta, this story has journalists […]
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This review may contain spoilers. Wilder Girls (Penguin Random House, July 9, 2019) helps to usher in a type of wild fiction that deals with ecological collapse. In the story, teenagers at the Raxter School for Girls are quarantined on an island off the coast of Maine. They’ve been sequestered […]
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About The Philodendrist Heresey Danielle Gasket’s search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by warring factions that agree about nothing but that Danielle must die. Danielle’s home is a dystopian city beneath the earth’s surface. People have lived underground for so long that knowledge of the surface is preserved only in […]
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