This list is a sampling of news about the eco-themes in literature. There are so many articles coming out that we don’t have time to link them all. Check our Twitter feed to get more exhaustive news. Originally posted in June 2013. Continually updated.
- A Look at the Growing Genre of Climate Fiction (Huffington Post)
- Are We Getting Warmer? (Winnipeg Free Press)
- Books: A Changing Literary Climate (Earth Magazine)
- Can Environmental SF Help Save our Planet? (Amazing Stories)
- Climate Changed: Five Fictional Survival Guides (Free Word Centre)
- Climate Change Art: (New York Times)
- Climate Fiction: The Anticipation and Exploration of Plausible Futures (The University of Nottingham)
- The Collapse of Western Civilization (Mother Jones)
- Communicating Ecology through Art: What Scientists Think (Ecology and Society)
- Confessions of a Failed Energy Martyr (Terrain)
- Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road” (Scroll.in)
- Ecoshock Podcast on Climate Fiction (the hour-long show) or just Mary Woodbury’s section
- Envisioning a Climate for Change (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- Exploring the Ecological Weird, SFF World
- Fiction Prepares Us for a World Changed by Global Warming (U. of Copenhagen)
- Five New Novels Make Fiction Out of Eco-Disaster (New York Times)
- From a Best-Selling Novelist, Something Rare (Barbara Kingsolver)
- Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
- Greener Pastures and Tangled Gums: the Rise of Australian Eco-fiction (Overland)
- Hollywood Stars to Put Human Face on Climate Change (The Guardian)
- Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre (NPR)
- How Annihilation author Jeff VanderMeer became king (Macleans)
- How Environmental Issues Are Springing from the Page (The Age)
- How Science Fiction Could Get Climate Change Right (io9)
- How to Read Proust in the Original (New York Times)
- Interview with Mark Nykane and Mary Woodbury (Viewsline)
- Lionel Shriver’s Guide to Dystopia (Telegraph)
- MaddAddam and a Sense of Future (Tide Change)
- Movies Help Prepare the World for Global Warming (Click Green)
- Octavia’s Brood (Truth-Out)
- On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk (Medium)
- Planet of the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson (Boom)
- The Reverend’s Guide to Eco-Fiction (Chico News)
- Scenes from a Melting Planet (The New Yorker)
- Science Museum Publishes Climate Change Novel (The Guardian)
- Speculative Infrastructures (Boom)
- Solarpunk: A New Movement Sees the Future in a Positive Light (ABC.net Australia)
- Solarpunk: We Are Golden, and Our Future Is Bright (Scifi Ideas)
- The Emergence of Ecofiction (Ashland Press)
- The Rise of New Nature Writing (The National)
- The Sunlit Zone (Mascara Literary Review)
- There’s No Escape from Contamination Above the Toxic Sea (NYT)
- This sci-fi enthusiast wants to see solarpunk happen (Grist)
- This Time, the World Book Fair Is a Green Affair (The Hindu)
- Utopia Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (IEET)
- Visualizing the Tropes of Climate Change (Next Nature)
- We Asked Sci-Fi Writers about the Future of Climate Change (Huffington Post)
- Weathering the Change (Voya Magazine)
- What is Ecofiction? (Katie Avalord)
- What the Warming World Needs Now is Art, Sweet Art: Bill McKibbin (Grist)
- Where Is Area X in ‘Annihilation’? (Bustle)
- Will Fiction Influence How we React to Climate Change? (New York Times)
- Will Novels Shift Attitudes on Global Warming? (New York Times)
- Writers and Artists Tackle Climate Change and Other Environmental Problems (Sustainable Business)