The wind came from nowhere … a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers – where they turned against each […]
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Thanks so much to Sarah Holding, author of the SeaBEAN Trilogy, for this wonderful interview. We are thrilled to talk to this awesome and talented writer who is very active in her community. Mary: I recently did a little study at Eco-fiction.com (now Dragonfly.eco) in a project where I categorized […]
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English version published June 10, 2014 (updated June 10). Click here to read our wonderful interview with Emmi. An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are […]
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Carolyn Welch’s new chapbook encompasses over a decade of poems that reflect her native California. From her experiences as a novice surfer to writing experimental prose, such as pantoums and vignettes, Carolyn has produced an imaginative, musical, and often eerie collection. The poems crawl with motifs of extinction, ends, human […]
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Copyright and written by Gregers Andersen, sent in 2014 to this site for publication after a personal discussion with its author. Because it has been plagiarized by the same individual twice now, I ask that you please respect the copyright and contact Gregers Andersen if you wish to reprint this […]
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The world has been ravaged by climate change, and Rachel is left to fend for herself. Living amid a clutch of disparate communities whose inhabitants she chooses to avoid, she rarely ventures beyond the safety of the storm wall. But when Jez White disturbs her twilight existence, Rachel finds herself […]
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It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions. The ensuing journey spans decades and offers a sharp-eyed perspective on a hardscrabble future, as a boy jettisons his […]
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November 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. For the United States, a leading carbon emitter for […]
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One of the earliest climate change novels. With uncanny skill, Arthur Herzog, best-selling author of The Swarm and Earthsound has blended fiction and fact into a terrifying and highly plausible story of the near future: a time when tensions mount as ecological doom beckons. Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence […]
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Francis Conway is Swill – one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into […]
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Amidst the current deluge of statistics about global warming, this book provides a refreshing look at how individuals are affected. The contributors, a mix of poets and essayists, concentrate on small changes in nature, as well as the ways they cope with the immensity of the problem. Some describe concrete […]
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The stunning new novel from Costa Award winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his […]
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The mysterious black C-Bean is a remarkable device which – as Alice and her classmates discovered in SeaBEAN, the first book of the SeaBEAN Trilogy – knows just about everything and can take them anywhere in the world. But now it’s broken and stranded on the rocks on the remote […]
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Mary of Eco-fiction.com recently interviewed first-time novelist Lisa Devaney about her title In Ark: A Promise of Survival. Your book, In Ark: A Promise of Survival, is set in a future world. How did you imagine this future scenario? I’ve always been intrigued by what might happen in the future. […]
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It’s over a year since her last diary and Laura Brown is now in her first year of university in London, a city still struggling to pull itself together in the new rationing era. Laura’s right in the heart of it; her band, the dirty angels, are gigging all over […]
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