Author: Trevor Hoyle Publication Date: April 2016 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (Quercus) in the UK Back to the Dragonfly Library “Islands in Space” (Excerpt) The island colonies ringed the Earth like a swirling necklace of glittering white diamonds. Spinning like silver cartwheels in the empty blackness and subzero temperature of space. […]
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A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean’s oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air’s oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrialist J.E. Gelstrom is furiously empire-building. The US/USSR […]
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Kira has never listened to the rain on the roof, swum in a lake or seen a cloud. All of those things need water, and in Kira’s world nearly all of the water has disappeared due to the ecological disasters created generations earlier. What remains is strictly rationed by the […]
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Part XVIII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Maia KB Chowdhury I am thrilled to chat with Maia KB Chowdhury, a multi-talented architect, artist, and author. Maia is an award-winning Registered Architect and author of a love story about fracking, The Erenwine Agenda. She is a contributor to Thrive […]
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Back to the series The 22nd spotlight takes a look at Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar, and their masterpiece Beasts of the Southern Wild, a 2012 American film directed, co-written, and co-scored by Benh Zeitlin, and adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from her one-act play Juicy and Delicious (where the […]
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Click here to return to the series I still feel Ireland every day, though it’s been two years since I visited the country. Yet, I cannot quite get over it. I still see tiny orchids and Burnet’s roses and mountain avens poking through rocks in the Burren and vast swamp […]
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In light of the Discover feature here at Dragonfly, I began writing what would turn into three articles, between 2017 and 2018, about ecological weird fiction. This series was published at SFFWorld. My goal was to get familiar with what ecological weird fiction was, and could be. Part I is […]
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Perspective is handled deftly by the author. As Arnott moves from fisherman Karl and his dome-headed seal, to the gin-swilling private detective, to the police sergeant being ruthlessly divorced by his wife, we are confronted by characters that are in equal measure, tough and beautiful. And importantly, Jack McAllister becomes […]
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Author: © Ron Melchiore Publication Date: February 2016 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Life Off Grid, produced by Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart Social Media: Facebook Wandering for 165 Days and Nights – Chapter 4 Sample Appalachian Thru-Hike in the Winter If our feet could talk, they would have said, “There […]
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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 countryside, they bring together monstrous insects, ghostly lovers, soon-to-be extinct species, unexpected birds, and interstellar explorers, to form a coherent narrative about […]
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Novel by Ohio University emeritus prof asks hard questions. Plot set in familiar-seeming college town. © Jim Phillips, Athens News, Athens, Ohio, USA (June 6, 2018), p. 15 Ted Bernard’s novel Late-K Lunacy opens in a small college town in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio, on the banks of the […]
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Fort Collins author Todd Mitchell starts every book he writes with a question. His latest middle grade novel, “The Last Panther,” takes place in an apocalyptic world in what used to be Florida. Two divided human populations deal with climate change and hurricanes that have flooded the coasts, creating swamps. […]
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Each book in my National Park Mystery Series is set in a specific park and seeks to capture and share with readers that park’s unique sense of place, beginning with that most iconic of America’s preserved landscapes, the Grand Canyon, and continuing, so far, with Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Yosemite […]
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See our world eco-fiction spotlight on this title at Dragonfly. The Story Collector treads the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen. With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Gaughan’s latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to […]
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Back to the series This spotlight looks first at novelists and poets in British Columbia speaking out against oil sands transport in our province. Then I zoom out to broadly reference other authors whose works are either inspired by or are directly about environmental fallout from fossil fuels. This spotlight […]
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