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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Sci-fi novel with a touch of northern climate change is one of year’s best. –Newsminer The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. […]
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From Akashic Books’s Infamous imprint comes Steve Saville’s Sunfail (Nov.) which stars New York City subway electrician and former Special Forces soldier Jake Quinn as he fights a conspiracy by the world’s richest men to destroy the world.” — Library Journal “Steven Savile’s fear-inducing novel of apocalyptic proportions, Sunfail, will […]
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In Kingsley, Carolyn O’Neal explores the frightening result of decades of toxins in the environment through the life of a fourteen year old boy named Kingsley Smith. Kingsley is a sweet boy, but he’s too fat to wear swim trunks and too poor to play golf. After colony collapse disorder […]
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