Back to the series Paolo Bacigalupi’s novels tell stories about human impacts on the environment–and, in turn, the results of these impacts back on humans. An award-winning author, Bacigalupi often explores bioengineering and loss of fossil fuels or fresh water in his stories. His novels in this field include The […]
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Author of Anthology: David Zetland, et al.; © John Sayer, Emma J. Myatt Publication Date: January 4, 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Click here for ordering via Amazon or a free PDF Social Media: Twitter Data Recovery Unit, John Sayer I have no tattoos. Life does not resemble a post-apocalypse, Hollywood […]
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Author: © David Thorpe ISBN: 978-0-9928690-8-3 Publisher: First published in the United Kingdom by Cambria Books 2014 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website For Dion Translation: ‘Mererid’s cry: it compels me away from my room tonight. Distant death is common after the sins of arrogance.’ – […]
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Back to the series This December I review the past 15 months of author spotlights, which cover fiction writing in the Anthropocene. Based upon talking with many authors in the past four years, and spotlighting their works, I have come up with writing tips. This review also reflects the writing […]
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I want to thank Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue and contributor to the upcoming Ecopunk! – Speculative Tales of Radical Futures anthology (Ticonderoga Publishing, 2017) for taking time out of her very busy schedule to talk to Eco-fiction about this collection of short stories that she edited with Liz […]
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Back to the series When I first talked with author Brian Burt a couple years ago, we sat in on a SFF World panel about climate change in fiction, and I was surprised at the things we had in common: we both hail from Indiana (go Hoosiers!), still dream of […]
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Back to the series This month we’ll look at Ali Smith, who is not a new author, but whose “Seasonal” quartet I just began reading. Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. See a complete bibliography at Wikipedia. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on […]
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Authors: © Annis Pratt Publisher: Iuniverse Publication Date: May 20, 2010 Type: Fiction – Series Social Media: Author website, LinkedIn, Amazon author page, Facebook, Twitter Note: We’ll be posting the series excerpts one at a time in the next several months. Part IV is being published by Moon Willow Press […]
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Author: Herman Melville (public domain copyright) Publication Date: October 18, 1851 Excerpt from Chapter 70, The Sphynx It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which […]
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Back to the series Popular author Margaret Atwood called climate change the “everything change.” Atwood’s novels are generally about the human experience, at times notably the female’s, but she also writes about this everything change. Her genre-busting books range from literary to speculative. Global warming occurs prominently in Atwood’s MaddAddam […]
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Author: © Midge Raymond Type: Fiction novel Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: June 21, 2016 Ordering: http://www.midgeraymond.com/books/mylastcontinent.html Author Links: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads Excerpted from My Last Continent By Midge Raymond Published in June 2016 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 2016 by Midge Raymond […]
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Author: © Brian Burt Type: Series (Aquarius Rising) Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing Publication Date: August 7, 2015 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1: Tombstone Tower Megalops floated in the twilit waters of Juno Reef, in the shadow of the Tombstone Tower, […]
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Part V. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Note: The novel The Bears was republished as Ursocrypha: The Book of Bear in 2017. Mary: Katie, thanks so much for agreeing to an interview with Eco-fiction.com. Your book The Bears tackles a subject very close to my heart: What would […]
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