Awakening Worlds is a coming of age novel with contemporary Gothic themes and elements of magical realism, a must-read for anyone who loves otherworldly fantasy. When Roselyn, daughter of the universe, learns humanity’s growing disregard for Earth’s health is putting … Continue reading →
Please check out this survey, participate, and share with friends, family, and colleagues. I am looking for minimally 200 participants who love to read books (world fiction); some interest in ecofiction is helpful. The survey is here if you have … Continue reading →
In 2017, Christopher Brown published his debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, a near-future thriller that explores how climate change and broken politics have created a dystopian wasteland…Rule of Capture is a prequel set in the same world. –The Verge Goodreads Reviews … Continue reading →
“The Warehouse” traffics in big ideas: unchecked monopoly, surveillance capitalism, climate change, the gig economy, consumerism and political gridlock. But, retailed in elegant, unobtrusive prose, this cinematic sci-fi thriller wears its subjects lightly. –San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook Goodreads Reviews Back … Continue reading →
The book is practically a novelization of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s post-World War II poem “First they came …,” but the environmental effects of the disappearances of things like roses and fruit make Ogawa’s prose feel applicable not just to … Continue reading →
With sharp humor and deep empathy, The Gulf is a memorable debut novel in which Belle Boggs plumbs the troubled waters dividing America. -Goodreads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads … Continue reading →
[Naomi Booth] offers a more visceral version of just how bad things can get when the natural world turns on us. As a pandemic spreads through urban areas, Alice, who is heavily pregnant, and her partner, Pete, flee to the … Continue reading →
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful … Continue reading →
A few years ago I came across the Dark Mountain Project randomly. Once there, I thought–where can I find something like this near me? I remember at the time I had just been to Ireland and wished to meet other … Continue reading →
Me and Marvin Gardens by A.S. King Middle Grade Fiction Published by Scholastic Trades Review by Kimberly Christensen Everything around twelve-year-old Obe Devlin is changing. New subdivisions keep springing up behind his house on the acres of land that once … Continue reading →
