Two Houses of Oikos

Author: © James A. Schaefer Publication Date: April 8, 2015 Cover Art: Maya Schaefer Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Boreal Songbird Initiative Aesop’s Tortoise In the year to come, I boldly predict that you’ll accomplish the improbable. You’re going to complete a marathon–considered the most gruelling of endurance races–without training, doping […]

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The World Tree

Author: © Clara Hume Type: Short story series (Lost Ages) Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: January 2013 Ordering: Amazon The light inside the globe began to take the shape of a mighty ash tree that suddenly loomed brilliantly in a scene that wound together images of witchery and sunlight. […]

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The Lost Ages: Awakening

Author: © Clara Hume Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: November 9, 2012 Ordering Information: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Description: Rowan and her friends have been playing Lost Ages MMO for years. Upon completing the final quest in the game and defeating Morpheus the Imposter, the group finds […]

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Dust Up (Series), Jon McGoran

Thanks to Jon McGoran for letting us know about his novel Dust Up, which is part of his biotech series. Following up on his critically acclaimed ecological thrillers Drift and Deadout, author Jon McGoran’s latest novel, Dust Up (April 19, Tor/Forge Books), continues to explore new ground. Once again, McGoran […]

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Stormy

Author: Richard L. Bailey Publisher: © TERRA Productions Publication Date: December 1, 2013 Ordering: The Last Century Book, Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library CHAPTER ELEVEN – A CENTURY OF CLIMATE CHANGE 2090-2100 Atmospheric Carbon Level – 585-615 ppm Average Earth Temperature – 67o Sea Level Rise – + 14 […]

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Mr Green Jeans, Chris McGee

Thanks to Harvard Square Editions for sending their forthcoming publication, Mr Green Jeans, an eco-fiction adventure. The novel comes out March 24, 2016. A married couple throws caution to the wind to help the planet. Traveling from the Midwest to Southwest in a converted VW van, they clandestinely exhibit their […]

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The Marshlanders Series, Annis Pratt

The Marshlanders is about the conflict between self-sustaining communities and their enemies, who are determined to drain their wetlands for agricultural development. Clare and William are adopted by marsh dwellers and coastal farmers after William’s father, a pharmacist, has been murdered and Clare has barely escaped with her life from […]

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Badlands, C.J. Box

C.J. Box and Craig Johnson get lumped together a lot in the mass crime-fiction consciousness. Both write series novels set in Wyoming, featuring Old West heroes who aren’t entirely comfortable making their way through the New West. Both weave contemporary environmental and cultural issues into their work, and both have […]

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The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times. In the foothills of the French Alps the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planting one hundred acorns a day in an effort to reforest his desolate […]

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Sherwood Nation, Benjamin Parzybok

Water rations are down to one gallon per person per day… the mayor is proposing digging a trench to the Pacific Ocean… dried out West Coast cities are crumbling and being abandoned by the east… and in Portland, Oregon, water is declared a communal right but hoarding and riots persist. […]

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Interview with Steve Masover, Consequence

Thanks to Steve Masover, author of Consequence, for taking time out right around the holidays to talk with us about his newest novel. Mary: For starters, I always like to look at the background of authors whom I interview. You are an author, activist, and information technologist–born in Chicago and […]

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Interview with Peter Gould, Marly

“Peter Gould — playwright, novelist, Shakespearean scholar, director, all around literary provocateur — is one of the most fearless writers alive. With Marly, he has again taken on an urgent subject, no less than saving the earth, with brassy humor, verbal pyrotechnics, and dialogue so vivid, it’s as if a […]

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The Last Kaurava, Kamesh Ramakrishna

Kamesh Ramakrishna, a consulting software architect in Massachusetts, United States, combined his fascination for history, archaeology, science and philosophy to write his first novel, The Last Kaurava, which interprets the Mahabharata through events that encompasses environmental and sociological issues among other topics that are relevant to the present-day world. –The […]

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Interview with Liz Cunningham, Ocean Country

Part XI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Liz Cunningham is the author of Ocean Country: One Woman’s Voyage from Peril to Hope in Her Quest to Save the Seas (North Atlantic Books) and Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger). Her work has appeared in […]

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Lost Girl, Adam Nevill

It’s 2053 and climate change has left billions homeless and starving – easy prey for the pandemics that sweep across the globe, scything through the refugee populations. Easy prey, too, for the violent gangs and people-smugglers who thrive in the crumbling world where ‘King Death’ reigns supreme. -Goodreads Adam Nevill […]

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