[Henley’s] world is set 150 years in the future, after the Earth has suffered devastating bouts of climate change and conflict. From this a new society has emerged, ruled by a World Union. –The Australian Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Professor Radicand Jones has survived climate change, pandemic and peak oil-but can she protect her sister’s airship flock from pirates, and hunt down their shadowy sponsors before the aether drives her mad? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Mired in a corrupt, dangerous city that is on the verge of collapse, a father and son flee to a rural village, hoping to find refuge from their violent lives. What they find is not the haunted hippie environs of local legend, but a gritty farm community that thrives despite […]
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Last year the term solarpunk came onto my radar. I read a piece at Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative’s Hieroglyph project called “Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto” by Adam Flynn. Having been a cyberpunk and steampunk reader, I thought, wow, solarpunk! This is a reflection and sign […]
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In a future where reality has been augmented and biology itself has been hacked, the world’s food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic collapse, he suspects sabotage. Hayashida travels Asia to find himself in Ho […]
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At the Sharp End of Lightning is a serious novel about ocean ecology and climate change. It is set amidst issues of family, loss and sacrifice, unexpected gifts, and coping with disability and new abilities. The novel is about ritual and doubt–and explores myth as well as celtic legends and […]
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Occasionally we post notable non-fiction here, especially when it either covers eco-fiction history or when it is written so creatively that it tells an engaging story. While Glaciers Slept is one such new book. While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a […]
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A parable-like work of fiction reminiscent of the work of Paulo Coelho, Journey to the Heart of the World was written while the author, John Lundin, was living among and learning from the indigenous tribes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. Its message, both humanitarian and […]
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Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something […]
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Now begins a complex story of intrigue, conspiracy and manipulation as June, her parents, a marine biologist and his handsome young intern, her best friend, the popular clique at school and the oil company fight over the fate of the mermaids. From the author: I wanted to share my novel […]
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When it came to writing The Osiris Project, I had the world map in mind very early on – a world radically altered by climate change, with borders redrawn and civilization shifted towards the poles. And that underpinned so much of the trilogy, in terms of character, society, political agendas, […]
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At the centre of the plot of the book is the idea of the Trans-Arabian Linear Generator, colloquially known as the Trail. This is a technology that resembles a pontoon bridge, joining stations in Mumbai and Djibouti. A substance called metallic hydrogen runs through the Trail and uses the motion […]
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Translated by J.T. Lichtenstein. Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, […]
Read More Author Sean Jackson’s Haw launches on June 19th. Haw is the gripping story of a father’s struggle to save his son from a corrupt society in a pitiless, bleak, futuristic America. Sean Jackson has published numerous short stories in literary journals, from the U.S. to Canada and Australia. Haw is […]
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Part IX. Women Working in Nature and the Arts I would like to welcome Charlene D’Avanzo, whom I first met last year in our climate change short story contest, which Charlene entered. Her story “Hot Clams” was selected for the upcoming anthology Winds of Change. Charlene noted in our discussion […]
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