Chait follows three main characters through a brilliantly imagined near-future Africa ravaged by war, climate change, jihadi cults and multinational companies…He interweaves ecological and political intrigue with Senegalese folk myths to tell the ultimately uplifting story of a continent sadly neglected in SF. –The Guardian‘s best science fiction, fantasy, […]
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Dystopian fiction comes and goes, and too many assume the trappings of formula productions; but the test of any superior story line lies in its ability to draw readers with powerful characterization and associations that lend to a reader’s emotional connections with events as they unfold. Code Blue holds a […]
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The new gothic accepts input from many sources: from industrial archaeology to ecofiction, from contemporary nature writing to the brutalism associated with film-maker Ben Wheatley or novelist Ben Myers. It draws as much from children’s fiction, folk music and horror cinema of the 1960s and 70s as it does from more traditionally […]
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Back to the series October’s spotlight (marking the series’ one-year anniversary) is on Susan M. Gaines, who wrote Carbon Dreams, her first published novel–and she has just completed another. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, such as the North American Review and the Missouri Review, […]
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I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Yuen at a Climate Change and Storytelling panel in West Vancouver, which I sat in this year on Earth Day this year–along with author Claudia Casper and climate solutions educator Deborah Harford. Isaac runs Ekostories, a fascinating site that has a vast amount […]
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Author: © J. G. Follansbee Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: October 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 2 Deputy Inspector Janine Kilel tracked the surveillance drone out of the corner of her eye as it hovered […]
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What if your father had to run for his life? Carbon Run is an exciting thriller set in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change. Fossil fuels are banned, pirates smuggle oil, and governments erase citizens’ identities. According to the author, this novel is second in the Tales from a […]
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Author: Melissa Fraterrigo Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Publication Date: September 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel-in-Stories Social Media: Author website Reproduced from Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Back to the Dragonfly […]
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Parts per Million, the debut novel by Julia Stoops, is forthcoming April 2018. The manuscript was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. Three activists let a photographer with a hazy past join their unorthodox household in Julia Stoops’s debut novel, a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. As […]
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Her stories, which are often set in West Africa, use the framework of fantasy to explore weighty social issues: racial and gender inequality, political violence, the destruction of the environment, genocide and corruption…Her novel, “Who Fears Death,” which is set in a postapocalyptic Africa, has been optioned as a series […]
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Oakley tells his tale to a human narrator whose own world is facing “now unstoppable” ruin from environmental disaster, with “new diseases” having claimed his wife and threatening his own survival. –Chicago Tribune From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story […]
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Guest interview: Sheryl Johnston (from All Things Literary) chats with Melissa Fraterrigo, author of the new novel Glory Days. Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo Pub Date: September 1, 2017. UK November 1, 2017 Imprint: Nebraska. 175 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-0132-4; Price $19.95 Melissa Fraterrigo is […]
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The first novel by Annalee Newitz, founder of the popular science fiction and technology website io9, tackles two issues that are much in the news: the life-and-death power of big pharmaceutical companies and the possibilities of artificial intelligence. –Chicago Tribune Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
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The Skeleton Tree is a survival tale that tracks two boys who need to quickly learn how to survive in the wilderness when their boat sinks off the coast of Alaska. The Skeleton Tree is a finalist for the 2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. –CBC Books Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
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Authors: © Annis Pratt Publisher: Iuniverse Publication Date: May 6, 2012 Type: Fiction – Series (Infinite Games) Social Media: Author website, LinkedIn, Amazon author page, Facebook, Twitter Note: Read other excerpts from this series. Excerpt: Chapter 8: The Crossroad The beggars were out in force, waving their stumps imploringly. Ordinarily, […]
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