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Updates almost every day except during vacation. The following news and events are reposted from our Facebook feed:
https://www.sffworld.com/2019/04/octavia-butler-great-news/ News about Octavia Butler's new Parable editions, with an introduction by NK Jemisin, and Amazon's screen adaption of Wild Seed--Co-written by award-winning sci-fi novelist Nnedi Okorafor and Rafiki filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, who is set to direct.
"Through my writing, I hope to reconnect people with wild places and to remind them how special those places are and the things that we can gain from spending time in nature, that feeling of peace and solitude, and...
https://www.tonemadison.com/events/nelson-institute-earth-day-conference-2019
See "Possibilities: Climate, Technology, and Society" at 3:45 p.m. with KSR signing books afterward. Robinson is uniquely qualified to speak at an event like this: His novels are not only novels of ideas in the grandest sci-fi tradition,...
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/green-new-deal-short-film-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ Moving sketch film, a must-see!
https://artguide.com.au/art-climate-change-2019 The festival aims to harness the power of art to spark conversation about climate change, and hopefully incite action.
The world ecofiction series' one-year anniversary is this May. I invite you to travel with me as I investigate how novelists are handling looming and present ecological and climate catastrophes around the world. This is one of my favorite projects at the moment as I've...
https://lithub.com/17-writers-on-the-role-of-fiction-in-addressing-climate-change/ Nice to see authors' diverse viewpoints about the role of climate change in fiction.
https://t.co/LUEOBvi6sv wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "The award marks a new high point in the growing prominence of environmental novels."
dragonfly.eco/climate-change-author-spotlight-brian-adams/ … Brian Adams, author of three #ya #teen novels dealing with #environmental issues, joins our 31st monthly spotlight on authors dealing with #climatechange https://dragonfly.eco/climate-change-author-spotlight-brian-adams
I'm a little hyped for Game of Thrones on April 14th. Here's my article "The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire" https://dragonfly.eco/the-beautiful-dangerous-ecology-in-song-ice-fire/ … #ecology in #fiction #gameofthrones
Ray Bradbury once said in an interview that without libraries, "what have we? We have no past and no future.” This is National Library Week, and in recognition of it, we’ve asked the librarians at Tufts’ many libraries to tell us about their collections—their most...
http://Dragonfly.eco has had some new book additions in the last few days, including Peter Heller's THE RIVER. https://dragonfly.eco/the-river-peter-heller/ … Another to add to the reading list. Looks fascinating, and I loved THE DOG STARS.
Another post in the Wild Authors series spotlighting climate change.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-place-of-vanishing-finding-barbara-newhall-follett/#! An unsolved mystery, but also the memory of a very early #ecofiction child writer. An example of her novel at age 12:
"The House Without Windows (1927) details the adventures of a young girl named Eepersip who...
Outlining the development of science from the point of view of the humble dung beetle is what makes this charming story of immense interest to general readers and entomologists alike
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/how-15-favorite-authors-might-finish-george-r-r-martins-a-song-of-ice-fire/ Pretty cool! "Westeros is a blasted landscape. In the ruins, Bran Stark befriends a talking mushroom. All along, the real Night’s King was climate change."
We imagine how @jeffvandermeer & 14 other authors might end A SONG...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/books/review/bangkok-veeraporn-nitiprapha-pitchaya-sudbanthad.html "Bangkok is an overgrown Garden of Eden in which digging turns up nothing but “blind earthworms, one after another, lost in a labyrinth of their own making.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/books/review/changing-earth-last-whalers.html Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth
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