A bush fire, and its aftermath, links a Bush-Stone curlew and three teenagers experiencing loss, love and change. The fire was fast and hot … only days after it went through, there were absolutely no birds left. I should have seen it as an omen, the birds all leaving like […]
Read MoreBarnburner, Erin Hoover
Author: © Erin Hoover Publication Date: October 1, 2018 Ordering: SPD Books, Amazon, Indiebound Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Website Back to the Dragonfly Library Nobody Wanted Such a River Nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it. —Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Geography in 1608 being what it was, […]
Read MoreThe Big Melt, Ned Tillman
The Big Melt engages, informs, and challenges readers of all ages to consider a variety of perspectives on what is rapidly becoming the challenge of the century: Now that our climate is changing, what do we do? This work of contemporary fiction, with a touch of fantasy and hope, will […]
Read MoreThe Same River, Lisa Reddick
Ever since a childhood tragedy bonded Jessica Jensen to Oregon’s mighty Nesika River, she has seen herself as its guardian. Now a courageous field biologist, she has just finished gathering scientific evidence that could bring about the dismantling of the massive hydro dam that threatens to destroy her river. But […]
Read MorePower in the Age of Lies: A Political Thriller
Author: © M Verant Publisher: Acerbic Press Publication Date: October 3, 2018 Ordering: Mverant.com Social Media: Twitter, Facebook 13: SV1 Reno, Nevada Saturday, three days later Madison shivered outside her Reno motel as the sun edged over the horizon. She’d agreed to meet Conrad at the SV1 solar array at […]
Read MoreMagdalena Mountain, Michael Pyle
“Magdalena Mountain” is a novel, a work of fiction, but it contains a good deal of nonfiction, in the sense of the traditional nature writing that people know from my books in the past. That is, one of the main characters is a butterfly, a real butterfly, called the Magdalena […]
Read MoreClimate Change Author Spotlight – Chantal Bilodeau
Back to the series I’ve known Chantal Bilodeau for a few years now, as our work aligns closely. She is the founder of Artists and Climate Change, an amazing site that covers a wide range of art that intersects with global warming. The art categories at AACC include architecture, comics, […]
Read MoreLost Objects’ “Little Red Drops”, Marian Womack
Click here to return to the series Over the summer, I spotlighted author Marian Womack’s new collection of short stories, Lost Objects. These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk […]
Read MoreWild Speculations and Ruptured Paradigms
Written and © by Annis Pratt and previously published at her blog, The Worlds We Long For Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming will cause the extinction of the human species, so when I came across an article by Lucy Jakub on “Wild Speculation: Evolution After Humans,” I was […]
Read MoreInterview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
Grounded in both awe and science, aching with wonder, and written with the dazzling surprise of a double rainbow… Emmons is a natural literary force to be reckoned with. —Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World and the New York Times bestsellers Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow About the Book and Author Bronwyn […]
Read MoreThe Butterfly Effect, Rajat Chaudhuri
This timely novel explores a dystopian Asian future, the result of interference with nature. Rajat Chaudhuri’s ‘The Butterfly Effect’ blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian doll narrative. –Scroll.in Read an excerpt at Asian Review of Books Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreThe Witch of the Meadows, Laurel Wanrow
Part one of The Windborne series. For months, seventeen-year-old Fern has been sneaking out on her mother—really sneaking out—through a magical portal to an island halfway around the world. There, the grandmother Fern never knew existed needs her help rejuvenating their ancestral land. She has always been good at growing […]
Read MoreInterview with Carol Fiore
Part XIX. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Carol Fiore Today I am thrilled to welcome Carol Fiore to part 19 of our Women Working in Nature and the Arts series. Carol Fiore is the author of three books and several magazine articles. We’ll look at her most recent […]
Read MoreThe Completionist, Siobhan Adcock
One of the reasons climate change is so hard to even think about – let alone understand fully – is that it manifests in many different ways. We’re seeing some of those manifestations now in the form of wildfires ravaging the Pacific Northwest, larger and more frequent hurricanes, and rapidly […]
Read MoreWinternight Trilogy, Katherine Arden
This looks fantastic! A fairytale/fantasy where surrounding nature strongly intersects with the story. A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman’s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular […]
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