This is Wanderers, Chuck Wendig‘s (Star Wars: Aftermath, Blackbirds) epic new novel of a dark future that weaves everything from social media to climate change to artificial intelligence into its complex, multi-viewpoint narrative. –Scyfy Wire Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Wilk entwines a classical sensibility with biological determinism—she almost suggests that humans have reached the final phase of a natural decomposition process, like cells programmed to grow and then atrophy. –The New Yorker In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to […]
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Wilderness Wars slow-builds menace from its nail-biting opening to its stunning apocalyptic climax. This is a golden eagle of a book—it grabs you in its talons and won’t let go. A thought-provoking and often frightening study of what happens when you mess with Nature and Nature decides to fight back. […]
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Well, there’s eco-poetry (serious and important), and The Eco-Comedy Video Festival (naf so far, unfortunately), so I think eco-fiction is still fresh. God knows we need gallows humour when contemplating the state of the planet. -Author interview, Stuff, New Zealand The Ice Shelf is an electrifying allegory for the dangers […]
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Same Sun Here By Silas House and Neela Vaswani Middle Grade Fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen When middle schoolers River and Meena become penpals, the two students form a fast friendship. Meena recently immigrated to New York City from India, and lives in a small flat with her mother and […]
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River Rules is a small-town suspense novel with a deep heart and powerful conscience. What the housing bubble didn’t break in Bridgeville, a small New England community blessed by the Connecticut River, greed, double-dealing and rapid-fire change just might. Peter Russo, a part-time farmer and full-time rambler with his rescue […]
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The world’s population has been decimated by the Change, a chain reaction of events triggered by global warming. In Europe, governments have fallen, cities have crumbled and the wheels of production have ground to a halt. The Alps region, containing most of the continent’s remaining fresh water, has become a […]
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Click here to return to the series I recently re-read Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man with Compound Eyes, which takes place in Taiwan, and was thrilled to connect with the author. This is the first chat appearing in the world eco-fiction series that has been partially translated, so in that regard I […]
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Author: © Jeremy Gadd Publication Date: April 15, 2019 Publisher and Ordering: Stormbird Press Type: Fiction Social Media: Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Blurb When demoralised Warren Yeats abandons his failing business, his ex-wife and his city lifestyle to embark on a road trip with more twists and […]
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Rin Braden believes the great love of her life, Yamaan Ali Umair, died in an environmental disaster that destroyed the Maldives, the island nation where he lived. It leaves her distraught and close to giving up on life. But Yamaan has survived. He turns up in Eaglehawk Migrant Training Centre […]
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After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The impending apocalypse, be it of the environmental, nuclear, or zombie variety, is proving an inexhaustible source of material for artists. And is it any wonder? Every month, yet another international agency releases a verdict on our collective future even more dire than its predecessors. The challenge for writers is […]
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Zoning, pollution, racism, anti-Semitism — these are heavy themes that could easily overwhelm “Strangers and Cousins” or, worse, look tritely exploited by it. But that’s the real artistry of Cohen’s work: her sensitive exploration of the whole range of our complicated, compromised lives. And she puts to rest the smug […]
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Click here to return to the series Thanks to Nancy Burke, author of Undergrowth (Gibson House Press 2017), we travel to 1960s Brazil to explore the historical problem that continues to repeat itself today: the logging of forests and catastrophic environmental and cultural conflicts that follow. In 1960s Brazil, an […]
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