Austin Aslan’s The Islands at the End of the World is getting great reviews. In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their […]
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Who by Fire is a powerful, passionate novel about the march of “progress” and the environments, families, and ways of life destroyed in its wake. See the Stalbert Gazette for more about this and other novels by Fred Stenson, who has written environmental fiction about oil and gas in Alberta […]
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Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction talks with Jennifer Harrington, a Toronto-based illustrator, graphic designer, and author of children’s eco-books. Her book Spirit Bear is a wonderful fictional trek into the Great Bear Rainforest and is published by Eco Books 4 Kids. See the site for […]
Read MoreThanks to Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann, EASLCE, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment for the following news: November 15, 2014. Panel proposed for the ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23-27, 2015, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. “What Lies Beneath ‘Cli-Fi’ Narratives? Climate Science, Climate Justice, […]
Read MoreThis short story is part of a book by the same now that will come out in January. Teaser That Porter left his family and flew off with another woman was later erased from the history books. Nothing went as planned. He hadn’t even kissed Any, yet. He began to […]
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The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s […]
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Thanks to Andrew Hanson, author, for providing us a good description of his new book: In the year 2030, London is recovering from a disastrous flood, which some say was caused by climate change. When a controversial talk-show host is murdered, suspicion falls on radical activist Ben Martins. Ben may be innocent, […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
Read MoreClimate 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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