Interview with Jeff VanderMeer, Southern Reach Trilogy

Jeff VanderMeer has been named the 2016-2017 Trias Writer-in-Residence for Hobart-William Smith College. His most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) from FSG, which won the Shirley Jackson Award. The trilogy also prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau” and has […]

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Whisper of the Woods

Author: © D.G. Driver Publication Date: February 2014 Series: Juniper Sawfeather Series Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books Ordering: Lulu, Kindle, Smashwords Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Author’s website Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpt from Chapter Seven The sun had risen and cast a beautiful golden glow […]

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Cry of the Sea

Author: © D.G. Driver Publication Date: February 2014 Series: Juniper Sawfeather Series Awards: 2nd place in the YA category of the 2015 Green Book Festival for environmental themed books Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books Ordering: Lulu, Kindle, Smashwords Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Author’s website Back to […]

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Hope or High Water

Hope or High Water: The Voyage of a Lifetime and a Model for our Future Author: © Duncan Morrison Publication Date: March 28, 2016 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Our Blue Canoe Film Facebook, Pacific Voyager’s Facebook, Twitter, Author’s website Chapter Four  –  A Living Hell 13 July 11 […]

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Gods of Little Earth

Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume I Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: November 28, 2014 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado Click here for Volume II This volume I is part of the 2050: A Future History series, which is a […]

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The Power at the Bottom of the World

Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume II Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: May 28, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado Escape from Bellerephon The gods plan, Simon laughs. —The Book of M I The desperate cry of a small voice […]

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When Immortals Reign

Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume III Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: June 15, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado The Keys to the Kingdom Simon upon damnable Simon! How tiresome it is to hear how he is worshipped! I […]

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Barkskins, Annie Proulx

From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer Prize-­ and National Book Award-­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests. Also see an interview in The New Yorker. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Satin Island, Tom McCarthy

In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures–as only he can–the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha

Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, ‘It’s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.’ Our radical imaginations are under […]

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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson

Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science […]

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Kissing Frogs, Alisha Sevigny

Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Scott has a secret: she used to be a nerd — a big one — a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating […]

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Listen, Francesca Varela

In Listen Francesca tells us the story of May. May is a piano-genius college freshman who dreams of becoming a brilliant composer. In her school’s practice rooms she meets Conner, an undeniably unattractive junior, and she is immediately captivated by his raw musicality on the piano. As May tries to […]

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What is Solarpunk?

What is solarpunk? Please see this thread in SFF World for a roundtable of thoughts about what solarpunk is and how to think about creating stories in the genre. I also asked this question to Adam Flynn recently, and he described it as: Solarpunk is a somewhat promiscuous adjective, used […]

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