From the author of Cry of the Sea a 2015 Green Book Festival for environmental themed books award winner. The mermaids she saved from the oil spill are long gone. There’s no evidence of them, and she’s been branded as a liar and a fake in the media and at […]
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The Power at the Bottom of the World
Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume II Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: May 28, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado Escape from Bellerephon The gods plan, Simon laughs. —The Book of M I The desperate cry of a small voice […]
Read MoreWhen Immortals Reign
Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume III Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: June 15, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado The Keys to the Kingdom Simon upon damnable Simon! How tiresome it is to hear how he is worshipped! I […]
Read MoreClimate Change Novels Set in British Columbia
I have blogged before about Clara Hume’s book Back to the Garden, which Moon Willow Press published in late 2013. Clara Hume, an author local to British Columbia, begins the novel in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, just over the border from the Thompson-Okanagen-Similkameen-Kootenay regions of BC. In Back to […]
Read MoreGreen Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson
Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science […]
Read MoreMercedes Wore Black, Andrea Brunais
Florida Politics. The only thing predictable is the unpredictability. When Janis is fired from her job at the newspaper, she focuses on the causes that matter to her. The environment and the economy. That embroils her in the 2014 election. When her good friend Mercedes encounters danger and is brutally […]
Read MoreInterview with Johanna Melchiore, “Off Grid and Free”
Part XII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Johanna Melchiore is an amazing woman and the wife of Ron Melchiore, whose book Life Off Grid: My Path to the Wilderness explores their road less traveled. Ron and Johanna currently live in the total wilds of Saskatchewan in a remote […]
Read MoreNature’s Confession
Author: JL Morin Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Press: Interview with Eco-fiction, Teenreads, Fjords Review Prison Class I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. —Ludwig Wittgenstein The stairs creaked underfoot, and the conversation in the kitchen abruptly stopped. […]
Read MoreConsequence
Author: Steve Masover Publisher: © Salted Rose Press Release Date: September 29, 2015 Press: Interview with Eco-fiction, Reviews Social Media: Author’s blog: One Finger Typing, Facebook Chapter Two October 2003 Chagall rolls up his ski mask, listening to the guard’s Jeep recede down the logging road. A crisp autumn breeze […]
Read MoreThe Sacred River …
Author: © Tom Hibbard Publication Date: August 12, 2011 Publisher: Moon Willow Press In Memory Of: Jack Kerouac Back to the Dragonfly Library THE GREEN UNIVERSE I. a misty tautology glimmers on the lake beyond understanding where the downtrodden hang by an anesthetized thread that parasitism devours with inappropriate guilt as […]
Read MoreStormy
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 […]
Read MoreGolden Age, Jane Smiley
Part of the Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga trilogy From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond…Determined to evade […]
Read MoreCarolyn Welch’s California Poems, Review by Tom Hibbard
Globalism, micro and macro: Carolyn Welch’s California Poems and Felix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies Genesis and Resingularization by Tom Hibbard (Author of The Sacred River of Consciousness) “With the nomad, on the contrary, it is deterritorialization that constitutes the relation to the earth, to such a degree that the nomad […]
Read MoreFriendswood, A Novel: Rene Steinke
I was interested in making people aware of these environmental issues, but also how they affect people, and the stories about what happens after the incidents. -Author Rene Steinke, Houstonia Magazine Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oil rigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and […]
Read MoreThree Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville
London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a […]
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