Back to the series When I first talked with author Brian Burt a couple years ago, we sat in on a SFF World panel about climate change in fiction, and I was surprised at the things we had in common: we both hail from Indiana (go Hoosiers!), still dream of […]
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With Donald Trump pledging allegiance to climate change, many people fear the repercussions for the environment of this tiny blue spot we call home. In her new book The Burning Years, author Felicity Harley imagines a scenario in which a scorched Earth plays home to international conflicts known as the […]
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Author: © Jonni Hyde Publication Date: June 22, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author site Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 2 In the living room, Gracie paraded her stuffed animals across the coffee table, while in the adjacent dining room, Kate set out plates and silverware. Anna […]
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When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru are two books in one. The poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, offers a haven to the exiles gathered there. Makhaya, a political refugee from South Africa, becomes involved with an English agricultural expert and the villagers as they […]
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Mosher has created mountains and rivers, timber forests and crossroads villages, history and language. And he has peopled the landscape with some of the truest, most memorable characters in contemporary literature. Also see “Film Tour Remembers NEK Novelist Howard Frank Mosher” at Seven Days. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Part XIV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Annis Pratt’s novels are full of passion for the natural world and enthusiasm for the details of everyday life. Her invented worlds are more realistic than fantastic, her fiction speculative about ways to live in harmony with each other and with […]
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Author: © Claire Datnow Series: Adventures of the Sizzling Six (Book 8) Publisher: MediaMint Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Twitter, Amazon author page, Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest, Eco-fiction, Enslow, YouTube, Instagram Excerpt: Middle Grade 42,317 words Back to the Dragonfly Library Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus): Named […]
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Author of Anthology: David Zetland, et al.; author of “The Bore is Coming” © Sarah Dixon Publication Date: December 20, 2017 Note: Submissions for Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2 are open until September 15, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Click here for ordering via Amazon or a free PDF Social […]
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Author: © Denise Heinze Publication Date: May 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon, BookLocker Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Amazon author page, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn This title was up for six months only. Please view the author links above for more on the book.
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Pretty much anything Jeff VanderMeer writes is strange, fascinating, and creates a sense of wonder that many of us adults have lost since we were kids. I sure have felt a big revival of spirit and wonder when reading his stories–and it’s really refreshing and fun, yet also seriously exploratory […]
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Speculative fiction usually starts with a “what if”: what if there was an environmental reckoning? What if we didn’t have enough water? What if the world was running out of food? What if that was coupled with a catastrophic global financial crisis? What would Australia look like? And how would […]
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Back to the series It’s hard to believe that we’re up to our tenth author spotlight in this series, but here we are, with an introduction to Jo Marshall, who spent seven years as a volunteer literacy tutor for elementary school students. In the D.C. area, from 1999 to 2006, […]
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Review of A Rain of Night Birds, by Deena Metzger Author: Mary Fillmore To read Deena Metzger’s compelling novel A Rain of Night Birds is to enter the consciousness of two people who take climate chaos and its consequences in deadly earnest. Both are professional climatologists who know the numbers, […]
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Author: © William A. Liggett Publisher: Sandra Jonas Publishing Publication Date: June 6, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library EXCERPT The thick layers of ice groaned and let out a deafening crack. Professor Kate Landry jumped, unnerved by the sounds, […]
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