Author: © John Popielaski Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Unsolicited Press Publication Date: December 4, 2018 Author Links: Author website Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Description: The primary narrative thread, Albert seeking a more authentic off-the-grid life in Maine, attempts to subvert that archetypal storyline of someone fleeing to the woods to escape […]
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Title: The Apocalypse Variations, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Author: © Marc Taro Holmes Ordering: print, e-book Publication Date: June 22, 2019 Author Link: website Back to the Dragonfly Library The Apocalypse Variations Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Marc Taro Holmes, CSPWC, SCA Copyright © 2019 Marc Taro Holmes […]
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Click here to return to the series This month we look at Sita Brahmachari’s novel Where the River Runs Gold (Waterstones, July 2019), which takes place in an everyland, according to the author. But she told me that Meteore mountain–meaning between earth and sky–was inspired by Meteora in Greece and […]
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This review may contain spoilers. Wilder Girls (Penguin Random House, July 9, 2019) helps to usher in a type of wild fiction that deals with ecological collapse. In the story, teenagers at the Raxter School for Girls are quarantined on an island off the coast of Maine. They’ve been sequestered […]
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Click here to return to the series Thanks to Nancy Burke, author of Undergrowth (Gibson House Press 2017), we travel to 1960s Brazil to explore the historical problem that continues to repeat itself today: the logging of forests and catastrophic environmental and cultural conflicts that follow. In 1960s Brazil, an […]
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Click here to return to the series Update: The English translation of Rokit, Before the Rocket, is published by Praspar Press. You can order from here https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/before-the-rocket-loranne-vella. They ship worldwide. Today we travel to Malta with Loranne Vella to discuss her award-winning novel Rokit (Merlin Publishers, 2017). It’s 2064, and […]
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Series Spotlights You’ve landed on an old page. Please see this link for the ongoing series. I. Jeff VanderMeer | II. Margaret Atwood | III. Nathaniel Rich | IV. Emmi Itäranta | V. Kim Stanley Robinson | VI. Ursula K. Le Guin | VII. Ali Smith | VIII. Peter Heller […]
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Click here to return to the series In today’s world series, we travel back to the continent of Africa, this time with author Rick Hodges; we talk about his visits to Kenya and his new novel To Follow Elephants (Stormbird Press, March 2019). Stick around, because this summer we will […]
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Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Hardcover, 259 pages Published June 13, 2017 by HarperCollins Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Midnight at the Electric interweaves three different generations of protagonists to tell the heartbreaking and simultaneously hopeful stories of young women living through times of societal upheaval. The stories […]
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Back to the series Welcome to the 30th spotlight on authors tackling climate change in fiction. We continue with the YA/teen focus, certainly timely right now as youth have entered the front lines on fighting climate change. This week, on March 15th, is an international march with thousands of students […]
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Author: © Clara Hume Series: Wild Mountain Series, book 1 Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing Publication Date: October 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1–Fran Between dropping seeds like raindrops onto pitted soil and slogging hotly through the creek at the hatchery, I often thought what […]
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Updated: Click here for Dragonfly’s YA/teen bookshelf. Followers of this site will be familiar with my spotlight on authors who explore global warming in fiction. This is a diverse series–recognizing various genres, voices, and storytelling styles which cover the subject of climate change found in fiction. Generally speaking, climate change […]
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Chen tells me he saw “a huge garbage field” in which migrant workers “are using their hands to break down the pieces of electronic devices, putting them on heat to melt the metals, or putting them in acid pools to dissemble the elements.” It is, he says, an environment of […]
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Author: © Virginia Arthur Publication Date: September 20, 2018 Ordering: Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Amazon Social Media: Author’s website, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpts Wiping tears off her face, she returned to the hotel where an envelope from Millicent was waiting for her. Once in her room, she […]
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Author: © D. M. Cameron Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: August 1, 2018 Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Even though the island of Moondarrawah is fictitious, this story takes place within the landscape of Quandamooka country. Moondarrawah is a Ngugi word granted […]
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