Post Tagged with: "environmental"

World Eco-fiction Series

Welcome to the World Eco-fiction Series: Climate Change and Beyond. This spotlight series travels the planet exploring fictional stories close to natural landscapes and wildlife, often with environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological […]

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The Apocalypse Variations

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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Beneath the Mother Tree

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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Shrinking Sinking Land

Author: © Kell CowleyPublication Date: December 14, 2018Ordering: AmazonSocial Media: Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, Publisher (Odd Voice Out) Back to the Dragonfly Library This extract also appears in the 2016 climate change anthology Everything Change as it was selected as a prize winning finalist by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson who […]

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Stormbird Press

Stormbird Press books—As if nature were not beautiful enough! When Nelson Mandela famously said ‘education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world’, he was inspiring a generation of readers to think, read and act. For centuries we have gained knowledge of the natural world through […]

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The Butterfly Effect, Rajat Chaudhuri

Click here to return to the series For this part of the global eco-fiction series, I was thrilled to talk with Rajat Chaudhuri, author of The Butterfly Effect (September 3, 2018, Olive Turtle, Niyogi), which Scroll.in describes as a novel that “blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian doll narrative.” Truly […]

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Power in the Age of Lies: A Political Thriller

Author: © M Verant Publisher: Acerbic Press Publication Date: October 3, 2018 Ordering: Mverant.com Social Media: Twitter, Facebook 13: SV1 Reno, Nevada Saturday, three days later Madison shivered outside her Reno motel as the sun edged over the horizon. She’d agreed to meet Conrad at the SV1 solar array at […]

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Lost Objects’ “Little Red Drops”, Marian Womack

Click here to return to the series Over the summer, I spotlighted author Marian Womack’s new collection of short stories, Lost Objects. These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk […]

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The Green Gold of Borneo, Emin Madi

Click here to return to the series Today we travel to Borneo, to Sabah’s Lost World, a wondrous and isolated basin that surprisingly has not been too explored nor exploited like many other areas in the world that contain such beauty and abundant natural resources, all within a montane ecosystem.  […]

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The Story Collector, Evie Gaughan

Click here to return to the series I still feel Ireland every day, though it’s been two years since I visited the country. Yet, I cannot quite get over it. I still see tiny orchids and Burnet’s roses and mountain avens poking through rocks in the Burren and vast swamp […]

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Wide As the Wind, Edward Stanton

Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the […]

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In Search of Staria

Author: © Peagum Coleman Publication Date: March 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 8 Victoria Snow’s Flat, Bristol Wednesday 22nd August 5.00 p.m. The Old Man awoke, instantly aware that something was about to happen.  He sniffed the air and recognised a familiar scent. He […]

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Code Blue

Author: © Marissa Slaven Publication Date: April 22, 2018 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website, Podcast Excerpt — July   Three splintering blasts, followed by a short pause, repeated twice more. My ears are still ringing and, shading my eyes with my hand, […]

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Dyed in the Green (series): Wood Buffalo

Author: © George Mercer Publication Date: June 17, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter   Prologue   The willows lashed at his face as Charlie struggled through the snow, weighed down by the ice quickly encasing his tattered snow boots. Despite the freezing temperature, a steady stream […]

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