Throughout its history, science fiction has imagined how humanity might meet its cosmic neighbors. How would the first contact with aliens go? Authors have imagined a variety of scenarios, from the desire for amicable partnership between humanoid species, to genocidal … Read more
That Groff is pursuing a psychogeography of Florida, exploring both a state in the union and a state of mind, is made clear by her insistent figuring of the subconscious. The book is approximately thirty per cent underwater, and it … Read more
Coming in August 2018 from Dark Horse Comics A new four-issue series, by award-winning artist David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist) and filmmaker, journalist, and comics writer Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Catwoman)…An eco-fiction tech-thriller where flora and fauna have begun to … Read more
Part 1. Trail of Lightning See more in the series here. While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of … Read more
Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection. Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads … Read more
There was a strange, enchanted boy. In Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, a wistful fantasy by Columbus author Ruth Emmie Lang, Weylyn Grey touches the life of many, human and beast, in his odyssey. –Ohio.com Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the … Read more
I had the pleasure of talking with Patricia J. Anderson, author of Threshold, recently published by Common Deer Press. Not that I planned it, but this month and next month’s interviews come from the perspective and lives of other species, … Read more
There is a house on an island, alone by the sea. Inside live three girls, Grace, Lia and Sky, with their parents Mother and King. Outside, beyond the sea and the horizon, there is a “toxin‑filled world”. To understand what … Read more
In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. She’s spent … Read more
American meteorologists rated the Dust Bowl the number one weather event of the twentieth century. And as they go over the scars of the land, historians say it was the nation’s worst prolonged environmental disaster. -Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard … Read more
