Seeds Of Transition: Book One – The Genesis Project is full of gripping adventure, psychological thrills, and emotional conflict from start to finish. As the world’s population approaches 10 billion people, and severe weather extremes impact crop and livestock production, the demand for and price of food is rising. Goodreads […]
Read MoreThe Bees, Laline Paull
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreInterview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
Updated announcement: This novel is being made into a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce. When […]
Read MoreCalifornia, Edan Lepucki
A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind’s dark nature and irrepressible resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. Read the New York Times review. Goodreads […]
Read MoreThe Swarm, Arthur Herzog
Then [bee] terror began to spread–terror that was to erupt into a national panic as the strange, seemingly purposeful murderous attacks of a new and vicious species of bees began to mount. Against this background, a band of scientists draw upon their knowledge to fight an enemy they only partly […]
Read MorePolar Swap, Arthur Herzog
Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race. […]
Read MoreEarthsound, Arthur Herzog
“A piercing shriek of fear and panic from page one to the shaking end!” —Cleveland Press Eerie suspense…Arthur Herzog’s The Swarm was mighty scary, but Earthsound is even more so!” —Publishers Weekly Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreFloodlanders, Wayne Marinovich
It’s the year 2025. A teenage boy accompanies his father into the Central London Floodzone for the first time. Warren Smith is excited about travelling into this dangerous, unfamiliar world to sell their farm products at a market stall. Following a Climate Change event which resulted in a three metre […]
Read MoreShort Story Writing Contest and Poets for Change 2014
Please join our nature community to discuss the contest or just to chat about climate change fiction! Note that this contest ended in the summer of 2014. This is a short story contest, not a poetry contest. 100,000 Poets for Change is a broad event that includes all types of […]
Read MoreThe Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Book exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. GoodReads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreMoby Dick, Herman Melville
One of our favorite books, which also influenced our Back to the Garden. Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature—the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod’s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, […]
Read MoreThe Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to […]
Read MoreProdigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they […]
Read MorePenny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny – Caroline Woodward
In this long-awaited novel, Caroline Woodward returns to her Peace River roots. Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny is a contemporary story about middle-aged love enduring despite prolonged separations. The story winds around Penny Toland, resolute ranch wife and part-time teacher, and her husband, Wade, reluctant rancher and good man, […]
Read MoreWater, Lloyd Jones
Previously listed on May 15, here is the updated post for Lloyd Jones’ Water, which is now available. Please scroll down for links to interviews, including the most recent interview with Ecoshock Radio. Wales. With the world in crisis, who knows what the future will bring? Food is scarce, the […]
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