Mary Woodbury writes eco-fiction under pen name Clara Hume. Her climate change novel Back to the Garden was published in the autumn of 2013 and later was discussed at Dissent Magazine as part of an emerging genre of climate change novels. She also has a short story series, Lost Ages, […]
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Robert Sassor combines his twin passions for sustainability and creative writing as a Director at Metropolitan Group, a leading social change agency and one of B Lab’s 100 “best for the world” corporations. Following Rob’s years as an English major at Willamette University, Rob conducted research and ghostwrote about a […]
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Watch for these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).
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The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King
This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running […]
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Winner Announcement: Due to a big weekend at Word Vancouver, and the fact the panel made their decisions early, we are announcing the winner a couple days early! Congrats to Mehek Naresh for the winning story, “Left Behind.” This story will appear at our Green Reads – Excerpts site soon. […]
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The Ark, Annabel Smith
The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s […]
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Time of the Great Freeze, Robert Silverberg
For centuries, men had lived miles beneath the ground in order to survive the great Ice Block that had submerged the earth. In an attempt to resume human contact, Jim Barnes, his father and several other daring men emerge from a subterranean New York to cross the frozen Atlantic. Reviews […]
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Hieroglyph, Neal Stephenson (Various)
Project Hieroglyph brings scientists and science fiction writers together to create positive visions of the future. From the Hieroglyph website: This anthology unites twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of “techno-optimism” that challenge us […]
Read MoreMargaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Review by Nina Munteanu
Review by Nina Munteanu Margaret Atwood’s Booker Award nominee Oryx and Crake is a sharp-edged, dark contemplative essay on the premise of where the myopia of greed, power and obsession with “self-image” and its outstripping of ethics and morality may take us. Replete with sordid subject matter and unlikeable but […]
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Last of the Sandwalkers, Jay Hosler
From Boing Boing: “Cartooning entomologist Jay Hosler‘s forthcoming young adult graphic novel Last of the Sandwalkers masterfully combines storytelling with science.” This upcoming graphic novel displays the life of beetles. Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Egg & Spoon, Gregory Maguire
A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, […]
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The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The Stone Gate, Mark Mann
Note: This book is a free download at Smashwords. Thanks much to Mark Mann, the author, for bringing this YA fantasy to our attention. Twins Jack and Kaya live in a small seaside town in Australia. When they see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the […]
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Polly and the One and Only World, Don Bredes
Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]
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IDP: 2043, Denise Mina
This book is set to come out November 1, 2014. A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for “internally displaced person or persons”) imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics […]
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