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Shrinking Sinking Land

Author: © Kell CowleyPublication Date: December 14, 2018Ordering: AmazonSocial Media: Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, Publisher (Odd Voice Out) Back to the Dragonfly Library This extract also appears in the 2016 climate change anthology Everything Change as it was selected as a prize winning finalist by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson who […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Edan Lepucki

Back to the series I was thrilled to chat with Edan about her work in the field of climate change and storytelling. She is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the novels California and Woman No. 17.  California debuted at #3 on the New […]

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Lamentations of Zeno, Ilija Trojanow

Click here to return to the series Today we explore the Antarctic via the novel Lamentations of Zeno (Verso Books, 2016) by Ilija Trojanow. I had not reached out to Ilija before, though I read his book a couple years ago and featured it at the Free Word Centre as […]

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Stormbird Press

Stormbird Press books—As if nature were not beautiful enough! When Nelson Mandela famously said ‘education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world’, he was inspiring a generation of readers to think, read and act. For centuries we have gained knowledge of the natural world through […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Marissa Slaven

Back to the series I talked with Marissa earlier this year after publishing her young adult novel Code Blue (Moon Willow Press, 2018) and thought this novel would be an excellent addition to our focus on spotlighting authors who write global warming fiction for teen and young adult fiction audiences. […]

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The Butterfly Effect, Rajat Chaudhuri

Click here to return to the series For this part of the global eco-fiction series, I was thrilled to talk with Rajat Chaudhuri, author of The Butterfly Effect (September 3, 2018, Olive Turtle, Niyogi), which Scroll.in describes as a novel that “blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian doll narrative.” Truly […]

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The Melt Trilogy

Author: © K.E. Lanning Trilogy: A Spider Sat Beside Her, The Sting of the Bee, Listen to the Birds Publication Dates: (Spider) January 8, 2018; (Bee) April 4, 2018; (Birds) Coming on April 4, 2019 Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram; Author’s Website (with ordering links) The Melt Trilogy comprises of  […]

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Barnburner, Erin Hoover

Author: © Erin Hoover Publication Date: October 1, 2018 Ordering: SPD Books, Amazon, Indiebound Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Website Back to the Dragonfly Library Nobody Wanted Such a River Nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it. —Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Geography in 1608 being what it was, […]

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Power in the Age of Lies: A Political Thriller

Author: © M Verant Publisher: Acerbic Press Publication Date: October 3, 2018 Ordering: Mverant.com Social Media: Twitter, Facebook 13: SV1 Reno, Nevada Saturday, three days later Madison shivered outside her Reno motel as the sun edged over the horizon. She’d agreed to meet Conrad at the SV1 solar array at […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Chantal Bilodeau

Back to the series I’ve known Chantal Bilodeau for a few years now, as our work aligns closely. She is the founder of Artists and Climate Change, an amazing site that covers a wide range of art that intersects with global warming. The art categories at AACC include architecture, comics, […]

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Lost Objects’ “Little Red Drops”, Marian Womack

Click here to return to the series Over the summer, I spotlighted author Marian Womack’s new collection of short stories, Lost Objects. These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk […]

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Wild Speculations and Ruptured Paradigms

Written and © by Annis Pratt and previously published at her blog, The Worlds We Long For   Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming will cause the extinction of the human species, so when I came across an article by Lucy Jakub on “Wild Speculation: Evolution After Humans,” I was […]

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Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman

Grounded in both awe and science, aching with wonder, and written with the dazzling surprise of a double rainbow… Emmons is a natural literary force to be reckoned with.  —Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World and the New York Times bestsellers Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow About the Book and Author Bronwyn […]

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Interview with Carol Fiore

Part XIX. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Carol Fiore Today I am thrilled to welcome Carol Fiore to part 19 of our Women Working in Nature and the Arts series. Carol Fiore is the author of three books and several magazine articles. We’ll look at her most recent […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Octavia Butler

Back to the series Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction writer, was born in 1947 and died in 2006. A Hugo and Nebula award winner, she wrote fairy tales as a young girl. By the time she was a pre-teen she got her first typewriter, ignoring her Aunt Hazel […]

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