Ghost Species, James Bradley

We originally published this news on October 25, 2019: James Bradley tweeted the cover reveal of his May 2020 novel, Ghost Species. See below. Update: The book is now listed at Goodreads. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Delighted to reveal the cover of my new novel, Ghost Species. Out May […]

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Top Ten Ecologically Oriented Novels & Films of the Decade

Welcome to the first day of December in a changing world. No blue hinges the sky. It’s all gray and cold and still as I write. A soft snow begins to fall. Cedars stand like sentinels. Crows call to each other. Grass is still green but covered in frost. I […]

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Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton

Hollow Kingdom is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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The Second Sleep, Robert Harris

It’s within this strange and ambiguous historical setting that Harris has also fashioned a cautionary tale for today — a tale over which the 21st century perils of climate change and unfettered technology cast an unsettling shadow. –OCanada.com All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. […]

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Aerovoyan, P.L. Tavormina

On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in […]

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Fun Experiment: AI Writing Our Stories

I read an interesting article at LitHub yesterday that used an on online AI-bot to write more of some of the world’s classic novels based upon first sentences. I decided to use the same Transformer tool to see what its response would be to some of my favorite eco-fiction stories, […]

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An Invite to Eternity, Gary Budden and Marian Womack, et al.

Humanity is facing a challenge if a magnitude ever before seen, compromising new anxieties we are at times unable to process. An Invite to Eternity is a collection of short story fiction that addresses this shift under the premise that speculative fiction, weird fiction, and dark horror are in a […]

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Bridge 108, Anne Charnock

Bridge 108 is a “disturbing, near-future novel” about a young climate refugee who is trafficked into slavery in the north of England. It is described by Such as “a warm yet deeply heart-rending story about a boy who is too trusting and inevitably falls prey to malevolent forces on his long […]

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Mountains Piled Upon Mountains, Edited by Jessica Cory

Click here to return to the series In November, we head to the USA, the first of the world eco-fiction travels to do so. Having spent a great amount of time in the Appalachian Mountains as a child (you can read more here), when I came across the anthology Mountains […]

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Sarah R. Baughman’s The Light in the Lake

The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman (Little Brown, 2019) Middle Grade Fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen In rural Vermont, twins Addie and Amos lived at the edge of Maple Lake, a place that had been home to generations of their relatives. Everyone loved the lake, with its […]

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Eco-Weird & Horror Themes in Literature and the Arts

Join us over at Facebook for a link a day–October 23 to November 2, the Day of the Dead. These stories show how eco-horror and eco-weird literature and other arts deal with both the uncanny and the real. The featured image is one I took at the Vancouver Climate Strike […]

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The Hills Reply, Tarjei Vesaas

Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan Tarjei Vesaas’s final work before his death, this episodic novel drifts between dream-like abstraction and vivid description of seemingly ordinary yet heightened scenes of the Norwegian countryside. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores

Near future. South Texas. Narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous heads, and filtered animals—species of animals brought back from extinction to clothe, feed, and generally amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long […]

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Lion City, Ng Yi-Sheng

These are the exquisitely strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award-winning poet and playwright Ng Yi-Sheng. Infused with myth, magical realism and contemporary sci-fi, each of these tales invites the reader to see this city-state in a new and darkly fabulous light. Goodreads Reviews […]

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The Dark Star Trilogy, Marlon James

The first volume of a promised trilogy, a fabulist reimagining of Africa, with inevitable echoes of Tolkien, George R.R. Martin and Black Panther, but highly original, its language surging with power, its imagination all-encompassing. . . . Marlon is a writer who must be read. –Salman Rushdie, TIME  on Part […]

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