Author: © Stephen Lowe Publication Date: June 1, 2017 Ordering: Amazon UK, Waterstones Social Media: Twitter Chapter 16 — Tea in the Hudson Hungry now, Torval and Dean sucked krill from the surrounding seawater and sang to each other tender whale lullabies, four beats to a bar… The whales swam […]
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Back to the series In this spotlight, I look at how ecology intersects with weird fiction. This has been an interest of mine, but I have done only one similar spotlight–on Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy–two years ago. It’s good to come back to this subject. You may also want […]
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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 this should have been my first post ever, but it took me a long time to come up with a standard for any sort of […]
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Author: Trevor Hoyle Publication Date: April 2016 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (Quercus) in the UK Back to the Dragonfly Library “Islands in Space” (Excerpt) The island colonies ringed the Earth like a swirling necklace of glittering white diamonds. Spinning like silver cartwheels in the empty blackness and subzero temperature of space. […]
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Part XVIII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Maia KB Chowdhury I am thrilled to chat with Maia KB Chowdhury, a multi-talented architect, artist, and author. Maia is an award-winning Registered Architect and author of a love story about fracking, The Erenwine Agenda. She is a contributor to Thrive […]
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Click here to return to the series I still feel Ireland every day, though it’s been two years since I visited the country. Yet, I cannot quite get over it. I still see tiny orchids and Burnet’s roses and mountain avens poking through rocks in the Burren and vast swamp […]
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Author: © Ron Melchiore Publication Date: February 2016 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Life Off Grid, produced by Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart Social Media: Facebook Wandering for 165 Days and Nights – Chapter 4 Sample Appalachian Thru-Hike in the Winter If our feet could talk, they would have said, “There […]
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Novel by Ohio University emeritus prof asks hard questions. Plot set in familiar-seeming college town. © Jim Phillips, Athens News, Athens, Ohio, USA (June 6, 2018), p. 15 Ted Bernard’s novel Late-K Lunacy opens in a small college town in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio, on the banks of the […]
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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 as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the […]
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I had the pleasure of talking with Patricia J. Anderson, author of Threshold, recently published by Common Deer Press. This month’s interview comes from the perspective and lives of other species, providing a fresh outlook in the field of eco-fiction. Thanks to Patricia and Common Deer Press for the opportunity […]
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Author: © Peagum Coleman Publication Date: March 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 8 Victoria Snow’s Flat, Bristol Wednesday 22nd August 5.00 p.m. The Old Man awoke, instantly aware that something was about to happen. He sniffed the air and recognised a familiar scent. He […]
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Author: © Bev Prescott Publication Date: September 11, 2018 Publisher: Bywater Books Type: Fiction Ordering: Bywater Books, Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website Chapter 7, Scene 1 THE SOLDIER TORE EVE FROM SHARON’S GRASP. “No!” Sharon strained to hear the words her wife mouthed, I love you. Her own […]
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Click here to return to the series One of the things eco-fiction is concerned about is the environmental destruction of the planet. Global eco-fiction lifts the gaze above the norm and into a worldly perspective in which authors and artists understand that ecological collapse is both a global concern and […]
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Back to the series Several months ago I became enamored by a multi-media project–Protectors of the Wood. John KixMiller, the author of the series, works with a team of artists and musicians who beautifully capture the novels with artistic illustrations and supplement the novels with a podcast for each episode. […]
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Author: © Marissa Slaven Publication Date: April 22, 2018 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website, Podcast Excerpt — July Three splintering blasts, followed by a short pause, repeated twice more. My ears are still ringing and, shading my eyes with my hand, […]
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