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MiSTORY, Philip Temple

  Thanks to Philip Temple, author, for providing information about this new speculative fiction and “future realist” title. It is available in New Zealand book stores, through Philip Temple’s website, and soon as an e-book. Is this what our future looks like? The surveillance society, climate change, global financial crises, the […]

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Interview with Peter Romilly, Cli-fidelity

Thanks again for doing an interview with Cli-Fi Books. We first talked last October about your book 500 Parts per Million. It was a great interview, and I was intrigued by your comparison of proactive youth in the 1960s compared to modern day–especially now when we face the biggest environmental […]

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Can Small Islands Show the World how to Fight Climate Change?

By guest author Don Buchanan, Virgin Islands Energy Office Media Information Specialist Christiansted, St. Croix Island populations may bear the brunt of negative effects of climate change more than other populations. So, it should be no surprise that some islands have not hesitated in efforts to convert to non-fossil fuel […]

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Interview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

Updated announcement: This novel is being made into a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce. When […]

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Blackmail Earth, Bill Evans

Chief meteorologist for a national morning TV show, Jenna Withers is appointed to a US government task force on climate change because of her acclaimed book on geoengineering. Jenna is stunned to learn that a major oil company has a pilot project to release iron oxide into the sea. Al Qaeda […]

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The Reincarnation, Chris Middings

As global warming spread north, and the environment soured, meat became toxic. Many died, but not members of the militantly vegan Medical Church of America. Like something out of Aldous Huxley, the Church is a weird mixture of fanaticism and science. As it grows in power, eclipsing governments and corporations […]

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Interview with Sarah Holding of the SeaBEAN Trilogy

Thanks so much to Sarah Holding, author of the SeaBEAN Trilogy, for this wonderful interview. We are thrilled to talk to this awesome and talented writer who is very active in her community. Mary: I recently did a little study at Eco-fiction.com (now Dragonfly.eco) in a project where I categorized […]

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Denialist and Skeptical Climate Change Novels

Climate change fiction seems to fall into one of two categories: 1) anthropogenic climate change fiction and b) other books about climate events but not necessarily climate change. Only two books have been reader-submitted that don’t fit into these categories. These books are listed below. Michael Chricton’s State of Fear […]

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Zodiac, Neal Stephenson

Sangamon Taylor’s a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil — all too intimately. As he navigates this ecological thriller with […]

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Interview with John Atcheson of A Being Darkly Wise

I had the pleasure of interviewing author John Atcheson after reading his novel A Being Darkly Wise, which is the first part of a trilogy. I read this novel in the course of less than a week, deeply hooked on what it was saying and where it was leading us. […]

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Peter Romilly’s Writing Process Blog Tour

1. What am I working on now, or just finished? I finished my second novel Cli-Fidelity towards the end of last year and I’ve started on my third, provisionally titled Frack That. Fracking for gas has been part of the US landscape for some time, although not without criticism. In […]

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Interview with Dr. Richard L. Bailey, Author of Stormy

Dr. Richard L. Bailey, author of novel Stormy, granted us an interview about his studies in climate change and his inspiration for writing this novel. 1. What led you to write this novel? I wrote the novel to create images in people’s minds of what is very likely to happen […]

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Stormy, Richard L. Bailey

 Thanks to Richard L. Bailey, author of Stormy, for the cover and description. Where to buy: Stormy is available at The Last Century Book or in independent book stores. Description: Born in a raging snowstorm, Stormy grows up in a world of deniers, but comes to view climate change as […]

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Primitive, Mark Nykanen

A “neo-primitive” cult kidnaps a famous fashion model and holds her hostage, forcing her to act as their spokesperson. As time runs out her estranged daughter allies with a dangerous activist group to rescue her, while battling dark agendas from the government and Big Oil. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads […]

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Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi

In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached […]

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