Review of A Rain of Night Birds, by Deena Metzger Author: Mary Fillmore To read Deena Metzger’s compelling novel A Rain of Night Birds is to enter the consciousness of two people who take climate chaos and its consequences in deadly earnest. Both are professional climatologists who know the numbers, […]
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Author: © William A. Liggett Publisher: Sandra Jonas Publishing Publication Date: June 6, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library EXCERPT The thick layers of ice groaned and let out a deafening crack. Professor Kate Landry jumped, unnerved by the sounds, […]
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Authors: Emily Houk, Goldie Locks, Benjamin Parzybok, Christopher Brown, James Treat Publisher: © Reckoning Press; ebook distributed by Weightless Books Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Poetry, Fiction, Art Social Media: Twitter, Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpts from Reckoning 1 The Plague Winter by Emily Houk The year the plague […]
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Lake Orion, MI (July 2017) – Reckoning Press, a new, non-profit independent press, has released the first issue of Reckoning, an annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. The journal is edited by Michael J. DeLuca, fresh from a stint in 2016 as guest editor of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud […]
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Author: © Nancy Lord Publisher: WestWinds Press® an imprint of Graphic Arts Books® Publication Date: September 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website Excerpt When everyone had gone off to prepare for the night shift or to watch a movie or sleep, Helen settled into a corner […]
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(Book 1 of the series A Dragon’s Guide to Destiny) Author: C. M. Barrett Publication Date: May 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website, Facebook, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 The whisper of raindrops awoke Druid. He groaned and covered his ears with his paws. […]
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I recently had a chat with David Brin about climate change and storytelling as well as where our world is headed. David Brin is a science fiction author, scientist & transparency/internet security expert, public speaker & business/governmental consultant, and blogger/social media influencer. But he’s so much more. To find out […]
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Author: JL Newton Publisher: IndieBound Publication Date: April 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon, IndieBound, Books, Inc., Berkeley and Book Passages (Corte Madera, California) Social Media: Author website, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter Expanding the Meaning of “Deep Ecology” My novel, Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, is a sly send up of […]
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Back to the series Updated note: John Atcheson passed away January 6, 2020. Please see Common Dreams for more. John Atcheson, a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Think Progress, and an environmental and political fiction author, wrote one of my favorite environmental novels, A Being Darkly Wise. The novel […]
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Authors: © H.D. Knightley Publication Date: June 25, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Wattpad, Goodreads, Pinterest Back to the Dragonfly Library 2: We Are Undecided (Book Three of The Estelle Series) Mj’s mother, Trudy, and her sisters Lizzy and Sunny, made us a big dinner […]
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Authors: © Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter From behind came a sound, swish, phwom, swish, phwom. My heart fluttered inside my chest. Could it be what I had been hoping for since the first giant gardener’s space? Years ago, […]
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Author: © Cat Sparks Publisher/Ordering: Skyhorse Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: March 2017 Type: Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Marian remembered some things clearly from the time before the Ruin. That the fringe of this battlefield had once housed a research station, built between the wars. White-coats had slept in the […]
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Author: © Belinda Mellor Publisher/Ordering: Amazon, Author Website Publication Date: February 1, 2016 Type: Fiction – Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Rain drummed on the terra cotta tiles of the hold-house. Fabiom listened to the rhythm as he went through the ever-growing lists of people who had been forced to […]
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Author: © Lorin R. Robinson Publisher/Ordering: Open Books Publication Date: May 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Fiction Anthology Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Excerpt from “The Perfect Storm” Sometime during the long night, the rain lessened to a steady drizzle. The wind, which had been from the south, providing cooler air […]
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ECO-FICTION THE INVISIBLE PARADISE: BACK TO THE GARDEN BY CLARA HUME “There is no immobile absolute, no spiritual ‘beyond’.” -Henri Lefebvre by poet Tom Hibbard, May 3, 2017 The term “eco-fiction” is, like other terms that describe types and categories, one for which a group of people are attempting to […]
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