Back to the series Updated note: John Atcheson passed away January 6, 2020. Please see Common Dreams for more. John Atcheson, a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Think Progress, and an environmental and political fiction author, wrote one of my favorite environmental novels, A Being Darkly Wise. The novel […]
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Authors: © H.D. Knightley Publication Date: June 25, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Wattpad, Goodreads, Pinterest Back to the Dragonfly Library 2: We Are Undecided (Book Three of The Estelle Series) Mj’s mother, Trudy, and her sisters Lizzy and Sunny, made us a big dinner […]
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The year is 2030, and climate change is making life on Earth more challenging. In the midst of it all, fourteen-year-old Jasmine Guzman is struggling to come to terms with the abduction of her twin sister, Jade, and with her mother’s illness. Things go from bad to worse when a […]
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When Sannah the Storyteller, a descendant of environmental refugees from drowned Pacific islands, finds a White stranger on her domestep, she presumes he’s a political prisoner on the run seeking safe passage to egalitarian Aotearoa. However, Kaire’s unusual appearance, bizarre behaviour, and insistence he’s a pilgrim suggest otherwise. Appalled by […]
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Her [Paull’s] second novel, The Ice, focuses on human intrigue in the warming Arctic: in its opening pages, a glacier calves to reveal a body, several years dead, and the novel plays out as an inquest into this death. By embedding a mystery in layers of melting Arctic ice, Paull […]
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Authors: © Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter From behind came a sound, swish, phwom, swish, phwom. My heart fluttered inside my chest. Could it be what I had been hoping for since the first giant gardener’s space? Years ago, […]
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Author: © Cat Sparks Publisher/Ordering: Skyhorse Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: March 2017 Type: Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Marian remembered some things clearly from the time before the Ruin. That the fringe of this battlefield had once housed a research station, built between the wars. White-coats had slept in the […]
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Sparks’s post-apocalyptic wasteland is far more imaginative and richly rendered [than Mad Max]. More than mere warlords threaten the ragged survivors of this world. Rampant biotech and unchecked corporate greed have left it littered with still-functioning weapons of immense destructive capability. A number of characters journey through this dying terrain, […]
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Author: © Belinda Mellor Publisher/Ordering: Amazon, Author Website Publication Date: February 1, 2016 Type: Fiction – Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Rain drummed on the terra cotta tiles of the hold-house. Fabiom listened to the rhythm as he went through the ever-growing lists of people who had been forced to […]
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This novel, published on May 18, 2017, will also be made into a movie by actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict is now excited to turn the book, about a mother and her newborn child who are forced to become refugees after London is flooded due to climate change, into a movie. […]
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A novel about love, loss, and sharks by the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the memoir Traveling with Pomegranates….Set against the intoxicating backdrop of palm trees, blood orange sunsets, calypso bands, and key lime pies, The Shark Club is a love story, an environmental mystery, and an exploration of […]
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Though this eco-fiction novel was published in 2006, according to Home Town Station, Mary Alice Monroe’s novel The Beach House will be adapted into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, starring three-time Golden Globe nominee Andie MacDowell and premiering exclusively on the network in 2017. Monroe’s novel The Butterfly’s Daughter also won […]
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Translated into English, January 2017–(originally Distancia de rescate), Fever Dream is shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. With virtuoso skill, well served in Megan McDowell’s finely textured translation, Ms Schweblin fuses a study in maternal anxiety with an ecological horror story. –The Economist Fever Dream is a nightmare […]
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Author: © Lorin R. Robinson Publisher/Ordering: Open Books Publication Date: May 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Fiction Anthology Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Excerpt from “The Perfect Storm” Sometime during the long night, the rain lessened to a steady drizzle. The wind, which had been from the south, providing cooler air […]
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Updated to post the second in this oceanography mystery series, Demon Spirit, Devil Sea, which is out in May 2017. I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of the novel. I wrote: The novel opens readers’ eyes to a beautiful, mysterious, and threatened rainforest as a climate change […]
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