Part IV. Authors Who Tackle Climate Change in Fiction – Emmi Itäranta Back to the series Finnish author Emmi Itäranta’s debut novel, Memory of Water, haunted me to no end. It was my favorite book in 2014, the year it was translated into English, and I later interviewed Emmi (see […]
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Author: © Kym Brunner Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for Young Readers Publication Date: November 2016 Type: Novel Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website – Twitter – Facebook – Subscribe to Newsletter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter One Today was the day I’d been dreaming about practically my whole life. Too […]
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Author: © P. Gordon Judge Publication Date: July 24, 2016 Type: Trilogy Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Amazon Author Page Back to the Dragonfly Library “Boring is good” Leon and I were nervously awaiting a video-link with the Lowell group. He was fiddling with some of his favorite nerd-ish gaming […]
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Thanks to Midge Raymond and John Yunker, owners of Ashland Creek Press, for the Q&A. Midge has more than twenty years of experience in writing, editing, and publishing. In addition to being a published fiction writer and journalist, she has worked as an editor and copywriter with several New York […]
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This site, along with Moon Willow Press, Eco-fiction’s Running in the Anthropocene Blog, and Eco-fiction’s Green Reads, will be on hold, for the most part, until late December. Our host is merging with another, so we’ll have new DNSs, and any changes made between now and then will be lost. […]
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Author: Herman Melville (public domain copyright) Publication Date: October 18, 1851 Excerpt from Chapter 70, The Sphynx It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which […]
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Back to the series In this ongoing series, we provide evidence that serious authors are tackling climate change in fiction. Essayist, editor, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Rich penned the novel Odds Against Tomorrow, which was published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Rich describes his novel as a […]
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Author: Algernon Blackwood (public domain copyright) Publication Date: 1907 as part of The Listener and Other Stories Back to the Dragonfly Library Note: the following excerpt takes place midway into the short novella and may contain spoilers. They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of […]
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Part XV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Originally published on October 31, 2016, this article is updated with the news that Nina’s Water Is…The Meaning of Water, is recommended by Margaret Atwood in “The Year in Reading,” published by the New York Times. Nina Munteanu is a Canadian […]
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Author: © Mat Blackwell Publication Date: May 23, 2016 Type: Novel Ordering: Amazon Kindle, Paperback Antisocial Media: Author Website Back to the Dragonfly Library Beef (excerpt) Despite Luka’s wonderful advice, the party had been exactly the awkward ordeal Royston had been expecting, for the one hour and ten minutes he’d […]
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Gary D. Robson is an American author from Red Lodge, Montana. He is best known for his children’s picture book series Who Pooped in the Park?, which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The books have fictional characters who learn from each other as well as guides. The series […]
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Back to the series Popular author Margaret Atwood called climate change the “everything change.” Atwood’s novels are generally about the human experience, at times notably the female’s, but she also writes about this everything change. Her genre-busting books range from literary to speculative. Global warming occurs prominently in Atwood’s MaddAddam […]
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Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of Wild Things, a new linked story collection from BkMk Press, 2016; Shark Girls, from Livingston Press in November, 2009; a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing […]
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Author: Jaimee Wriston Colbert Publisher: BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Publication Date: October 15, 2016 Type: Short Story Collection Ordering: SPD Books in Berkeley, Amazon Social Media: Poets and Writers, Author Website Excerpt from the Wild Things collection, from the short story “The Man Who Jumped” (First published in […]
Read MoreAuthor: © Mehek Naresh Type: Short Story Social Media: Twitter, Author Blog Congratulations to Mehek Naresh for winning the Eco-fiction 2016 Solarpunk Short Story Contest! This short story is published whole. Judges were Claudie Arseneault, author of Viral Airwaves and editor of Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, and […]
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