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2047 Short Stories from Our Common Future

Author: © Tanja Rohini Bisgaard Anthology Authors: Click here Ordering: 2047: Our Common Futures Publication Date: November 29, 2017 Type: Fiction – Anthology Social Media: Author website Introduction As a teenager in the 1980s, growing up in Norway’s second-largest city, Bergen, I often sat reading the newspaper before heading off […]

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Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award; the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of […]

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The Ocean Container

Author: © Patrik Sampler Publisher: Ninebark Press Ordering: PatrikSampler.com Publication Date: June 16, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website   An Excerpt from The Ocean Container What can I see? Thin mist blowing through the branches of wind-carved Sitka spruce, cracked, grey bark and thin lower branches […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Susan M. Gaines

Back to the series October’s spotlight (marking the series’ one-year anniversary) is on Susan M. Gaines, who wrote Carbon Dreams, her first published novel–and she has just completed another. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, such as the North American Review and the Missouri Review, […]

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Interview with Isaac Yuen, Ekostories

I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Yuen at a Climate Change and Storytelling panel in West Vancouver, which I sat in this year on Earth Day this year–along with author Claudia Casper and climate solutions educator Deborah Harford. Isaac runs Ekostories, a fascinating site that has a vast amount […]

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Carbon Run

Author: © J. G. Follansbee Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: October 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 2 Deputy Inspector Janine Kilel tracked the surveillance drone out of the corner of her eye as it hovered […]

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Glory Days

Author: Melissa Fraterrigo Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Publication Date: September 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel-in-Stories Social Media: Author website Reproduced from Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Back to the Dragonfly […]

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Interview with Melissa Fraterrigo, Glory Days

Guest interview: Sheryl Johnston (from All Things Literary) chats with Melissa Fraterrigo, author of the new novel Glory Days. Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo Pub Date: September 1, 2017. UK November 1, 2017 Imprint: Nebraska. 175 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-0132-4; Price $19.95 Melissa Fraterrigo is […]

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The Road to Beaver Mill

Authors: © Annis Pratt Publisher: Iuniverse Publication Date: May 6, 2012 Type: Fiction – Series (Infinite Games) Social Media: Author website, LinkedIn, Amazon author page, Facebook, Twitter Note: Read other excerpts from this series. Excerpt: Chapter 8: The Crossroad The beggars were out in force, waving their stumps imploringly. Ordinarily, […]

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Interview with Cat Sparks, Ecopunk

I want to thank Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue and contributor to the upcoming Ecopunk! – Speculative Tales of Radical Futures anthology (Ticonderoga Publishing, 2017) for taking time out of her very busy schedule to talk to Eco-fiction about this collection of short stories that she edited with Liz […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Barbara Kingsolver

Back to the series From Barbara Kingsolver’s official site: “Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her […]

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Interview with Nancy Lord

Part XV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Nancy Lord, who lives in Homer, Alaska, is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment.  From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction […]

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Interview with James Bradley, Author of Clade and The Silent Invasion

I’m happy to welcome James Bradley, Australian novelist and critic. James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic.  His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field , The Resurrectionistand Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean, as well as The Change Trilogy for young adults, the first […]

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The Galaxy Series

Author: © Aithal Publication Date: Part I. November 25, 2015. Part II. January 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Series Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon, YouTube Back to the Dragonfly Library Note, there are two excerpts below from the first two books in the series. Part I. […]

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The End of the Beginning

Author: © Zachary Eichholz Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram CHAPTER 22: Cooperation Not Annihilation The Pentagon, Virginia Monday, April 5, 2027        “Madam. Secretary,” said Colonel Mapfeka, “thank you for allowing us the opportunity to brief you today. It is […]

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