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How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume's twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19.

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the twentieth century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike. With a robust variety of works, including H. G. Wells, Clare Winger Harris, H. P. Lovecraft, Leslie F. Stone, and Arthur Conan Doyle, The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction offers vital new perspectives and critical introductions all the way back to humanity's earliest surviving literary texts.

Asks who gets the right to call themselves a good person in a morally bankrupt world

The second book in this environmental epic fantasy series delves into the mysteries of a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea.After setting fire to the Forever Sea and leaving the surface world behind, Kindred Greyreach dives below to find a Seafloor populated by roving bands of scavengers. Among them, Kindred discovers a familiar face working to save the Sea from the continued spread of the Greys and the ravages of the world above. But when Kindred finds herself at odds with a faction below the Sea, she and her friends will have to use every power available to them—including their link to the surface world—to forestall disaster.Meanwhile, above, a boy named Flitch, son of the Baron of the Borders, finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis as survivors from Arcadia and the Once-City arrive on the Mainland. As monsters from the depths of the Sea begin to surface near the Mainland's shores, Flitch must also navigate a crisis closer to home. As Flitch, his family, and their allies search for solutions, the truth they seek may lay hidden in old stories and long-held family secrets.Above and below, Flitch and Kindred must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.

Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a “literary supercut” that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.

Emma, Lily, and Fadila want to save the planet... but no one around them seems to care. Frustrated, they name themselves the Green Girls, take to social media, and launch a series of bold protests. Alongside their classmate and aspiring Green Girl Silas, the crew risks getting in trouble (and stirs some up) to raise awareness about container ship pollution, palm oil overproduction, and more environmental hazards. With a mix of livestreams, spray paint, and bungee cords, they're out to make a difference—and get their followers to do the same.

Explore the thrilling origins of the druid Doric in this original prequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.For as long as she can remember, Doric has felt alone. Abandoned by her human parents, she wandered for years before being taken in by a community of Neverwinter Wood elves. But her horns and tail proclaim a tiefling heritage, and even among the kindest of elves, her fledgling druidic abilities mark her as different from the rangers around her. And as humans begin to encroach farther and farther into the once pristine woods, Doric knows she needs to master her druidic capabilities if she is to be any help to her adopted family. With no means of helping Doric themselves, her guardians see no choice but to send her somewhere she can come into her own. Tucked among the ancient pines of the Ardeep Forest hides the Emerald Enclave, an order of warriors tasked with preserving the natural world. They fight to maintain balance between the forces of the wild and civilization, and in doing so, protect the sanctity of each. Among their order, Doric begins to find power in her differences. But not all her fellow initiates are so capable of new growth, and as her training continues, Doric is forced to confront the very beliefs that brought her into the Enclave's fold. If she's going to protect her home, she'll have to reckon with her people, her power, and the walls she's built to keep herself safe from both.

The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the Year An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road.Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in a village near the forest. When her mom becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her—a special flower that grows deep in the forest. The little girl needs all her courage when she sets out alone to find and bring back the flower, and all her kindness to overpower the dangers she encounters on the quest. Ben Okri brings the power of his mystic vision to a timely story that weaves together wonder, adventure, and environmentalism.

Mary Em Phillips has decided to end it all after losing her beloved Mamie, who raised her; her husband, Jack, who has left her for another woman; and her only son, Petey, who has died as a result of a freak bacterial infection. But when Mosely Albright, a black man from Chicago's South Side, comes to her back door one morning needing a drink of water and seeking directions back to the train, her plans are derailed... to the chagrin of Mishigami (so named by the Ojibwe, also known as Lake Michigan), who has been trying to lure Mary Em into his icy depths in the hopes that she will save him. Mary Em wants nothing more than to end her anguish. Mosely is searching for the love he's been missing most of his life. And Mishigami—who fears he is dying from rampant pollution and overfishing—seeks a champion. A story of friendship, survival, connection and the unquestioning power of nature told through three distinct voices, Speed of Dark affirms a love of humanity that transcends all else, including race and background.

A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi—the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi—but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers'images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film—an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature's innocence—which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator.Originally published in 1923, Salten's story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. Jack Zipes's introduction traces the history of the book's reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life—as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution.With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story.

Introduce children to the importance of protecting the environment with this illustrated story ebook about deforestation and its effect on animals.Join fisherman Finn and his dog, Skip, on their second adventure in this illustrated story ebook for young children, which teaches them about deforestation and what they can do to help.Finn and Skip are on an adventure vacation, cycling through the towering rainforests of central America, when they notice that large patches of trees seem to have disappeared. The plot thickens when an unexpected guest arrives at their campsite-a lonely baby tapir. They feed their new friend, but the next morning they wake up to even more hungry animals. It seems something is afoot in the forest, and Finn and Skip set out to discover what's going on...This ebook is the ideal introduction to the environmental concerns facing our forests, featuring colorful illustrations and an engaging, light-hearted storyline, drawn and written by Brendan Kearney. Grown-ups and children will enjoy reading together and following the story of Finn and Skip, with its ups and downs, and pointing out all the different animals that Finn meets in the rainforest. They'll also learn about how using ethical products can help save the animals.With its fun, quirky illustrations, Forest is the perfect addition to a child's bookshelf. Young readers will love this picture book with a timely and ultimately uplifting message about protecting the world around us.

This second book in a cli-fi series from a nationally-recognized anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice AgeIn the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neandertal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the godlike Jemen leader known as the Old Woman of the Mountain. According to Trogon's vision, only one person knows the location of that burial cave. Trogon must capture young Quiller and force her to lead him there…for the Old Woman may not be dead. She may only have been in stasis for a thousand summers, and when reawakened she will save them from oblivion. But according to the Denisovans—Quiller's people—Trogon is the most powerful witch alive. He's up to something evil that will surely spell their destruction. He must be stopped before it's too late. Quiller's best friend Lynx must brave towering glaciers, dire wolves, and prides of giant lions to save her and stop Trogon.

Un grupo de jóvenes investigadores viaja a las islas de la Desolación, frente a la Antártida, para registrar los efectos del cambio climático en la fauna y la flora. Es un territorio hostil, completamente aislado de la civilización y azotado por vientos huracanados, donde innumerables naufragios y tragedias se han ido sucediendo desde su descubrimiento en 1772. Forzados a una desconexión total, los científicos, dominados por insospechadas pulsiones atizadas por el inevitable confinamiento, se verán enfrentados a sí mismos y a los demás en un sur gélido y despiadado como la misma condición humana. Al tiempo que estudian los signos que predicen la llegada del fin del mundo tal y como lo conocemos, este grupo de estudiosos asistirá a una serie de misteriosas desapariciones, mientras los icebergs, amenazantes y présagos de inexorables tragedias, se perfilan en su horizonte geográfico y vital.

Año 2033: los efectos climáticos derivados del drenaje de la laguna han sido devastadores. Con el fin de sofocar el caos, el Sistema gobierna la Región al amparo de las leyes de un Ejecutivo implacable. Intriga, amor, denuncia, compromiso, rebeldía y dos planos temporales ayudarán al lector a comprender la evolución de una sociedad tal y como la conocemos hasta la distorsión absoluta de la misma, así como a descubrir que la libertad es un logro frágil. “Milagros López nos invita a no perder nunca la esperanza. (…) La autora ha recibido numerosos premios en narrativa corta. Ha sido traducida al inglés, francés, polaco, holandés, rumano y árabe” Diario La Opinión “Milagros llega a la conclusión de que la libertad es un logro frágil y el afán de supremacía lleva al ser humano a desatar monstruos que nunca hubiera imaginado. Nos encontramos ante una novela de intriga, amor, estrategia, rebeldía…”. Diario La Verdad “Una obra no muy extensa, cuya fábula está magníficamente urdida; el perfil de los personajes es redondo y atractivo; una obra que entretiene y capta la atención con una necesaria reivindicación medioambiental. Todo ello inmerso en una trama apasionante, donde los protagonistas son de fondo el amor, la amistad y las relaciones, que conmoverán al lector profundamente”. Idoia Arbillaga, poeta y crítica literaria

El regreso al género del relato de José María Merino, Premio Nacional de las Letras, Premio Nacional de Narrativa y Premio Nacional de la Crítica «Un libro enjundioso, salpicado de humor, con mucho mensaje escrito entre sus renglones, que escondía detrás una larga meditación sobre el cambio climático y sus efectos en el planeta, una de las preocupaciones vigentes que todavía mantiene.» Javier Ors, La Razón «Cada uno elige la responsabilidad de su destino.» Un papa sueña con la dimisión de Dios, un joven escritor intenta relatar el fin del mundo rural, un hombre busca en las profundidades del mar alejarse de las atrocidades de la superficie, una pareja llega al séptimo continente, formado por la acumulación de plástico, ese material que puede privarnos de futuro… Los personajes que pueblan este libro asisten, en ocasiones ajenos, otras sorprendidos y casi siempre melancólicos, a los mensajes que grita la Tierra: el de que nos encontramos ante una nueva era, el de su transformación por la acción humana y el del cambio en las relaciones entre las personas propiciado por los avances tecnológicos. No hay tregua posible: hay un mundo nuevo en construcción, hay un planeta en destrucción. Con Noticias delAntropoceno, José María Merino regresa con la maestría acostumbrada al género del relato. Su mirada amable y lúcida de la realidad, si bien no exenta de ironía crítica, plantea al lector una reflexión urgente sobre nuestro tiempo y la huella del ser humano sobre la Tierra. Reseñas: «Merino nos invita a mirar por un calidoscopio en el que los reflejos de colores se acaban fundiendo a negro. [...] Noticias del Antropoceno no es Black Mirror, pero asusta mucho más. Este libro de relatos es una distopía desnuda, libre de artificios. Merino fabula nuestro ocaso con melancolía y una buena dosis de ironía, una obra necesaria.» Miguel Ángel Santamarina, Zenda «Una magnífica colección de cuentos y microrrelattos, géneros en los que el escritor gallego es especialmente maestro, donde nos advierte, sin caer en el panfleto, del maltrato que sufre el planeta, a manos del ser humano.» Adrián Sanmartín, El Imparcial «Hay un tono de advertencia en estas breves ficciones, [...] todo ello bañado por una capa de ironía que no debe confundirse con cinismo, sino todo lo contrario: el deseo de creer en el lado bueno del ser humano y que no todo está perdido. Porque a veces un buen cuento puede despertar conciencias inmunes a las estadísticas y a las noticias.» Fernando Díaz de Quijano, El Cultural «Un libro de cuentos en el que mira con ironía los desvaríos y peligros de este mundo. [...] No hay sermones verdes en sus páginas, tampoco digresiones científicas: solo hombres corrientes y perdidos que se asoman a los problemas de este tiempo extraño.» Bruno Pardo Porto, ABCultural «Siempre ha dominado José María Merino esa oralidad de lo mágico del lenguaje que es la identidad más segura, y el mejor instrumento para darle a los sueños alas y procurarle a la filosofía espíritus que abonar. Es lo que tiene su dominio de la alquimia de la literatura. Merino coge las tormentas de granizo y las inundaciones de basura que nos deterioran a diario el paisaje de lo que somos, y las convierte en cuentos morales.» Guillermo Busutil, Zenda

The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea.On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie grasses known as the Forever Sea, Kindred Greyreach, hearthfire keeper and sailor aboard harvesting vessel The Errant, is just beginning to fit in with the crew of her new ship when she receives devastating news. Her grandmother—The Marchess, legendary captain and hearthfire keeper—has stepped from her vessel and disappeared into the sea.But the note she leaves Kindred suggests this was not an act of suicide. Something waits in the depths, and the Marchess has set out to find it.To follow in her grandmother's footsteps, Kindred must embroil herself in conflicts bigger than she could imagine: a water war simmering below the surface of two cultures; the politics of a mythic pirate city floating beyond the edges of safe seas; battles against beasts of the deep, driven to the brink of madness; and the elusive promise of a world below the waves. Kindred finds that she will sacrifice almost everything—ship, crew, and a life sailing in the sun—to discover the truth of the darkness that waits below the Forever Sea.

The first in a ‘cli-fi'series blending historical fantasy, apocalyptic fiction, and Egyptian mythology—from a New York Times–bestselling author and archaeologist! Planet of the Apes meets People of the World in a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age. One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers 3-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. 16-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People—archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.

This powerful picture book shows the importance of raising your own strong voice to defend what you love.Sasha the bear loves the meadow in her forest more than anything. But when great yellow beasts threaten to cut and burn the forest, Sasha and the other animals must find a way to stop them.'Don't go roaring,'squirrel tells Sasha. The bird tries singing sweetly. The rabbit tries thumping to distract them. The deer tries running to lead them away. But none of these things stop the machines. Must they all run and hide? Sasha the bear knows they need something louder, something bigger, something more powerful. And Sasha knows her voice--her roar--is the most powerful tool she has.Olivia A. Cole's deceptively simple text and Jessica Gibson's vibrant art celebrate the power of learning to raise your own strong voice to defend what you love. Because sometimes you must be a bear. Sometimes you must roar.

From the bestselling author of Netflix's The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller. In a time when Earth's rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction, the Virgin Zones were established in an attempt to combat the change. Off-limits to humanity and given back to nature, these thirteen vast areas of land were intended to become the lungs of the world. Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventurers into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Attracted by the challenges and dangers posed by the primal lands, extreme competitors seek to cross them with a minimum of equipment, depending only on their raw skills and courage. Not all survive. Also in Dylan's team is his daughter Jenn, and she carries a secret––Kat, his wife who abandoned them both years ago, has entered Eden ahead of them. Jenn is determined to find her mother, but neither she nor the rest of their tight-knit team are prepared for what confronts them. Nature has returned to Eden in an elemental, primeval way. And here, nature is no longer humanity's friend.

'The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel…with both passion and compassion, Greaves takes readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West.'—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Returning to her small Colorado hometown to find her old high school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, eco–activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self–discovery. C. JOSEPH GREAVES spent 25 years as an LA trial lawyer before devoting his talents to fiction. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico–Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently Tom & Lucky, a Wall Street Journal'Best Books of 2015'selection and finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the Four Corners Free Press newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.

Twelve-year-old Chloe Ashton is an only child living in the remote wilderness of Oregon. She spends her days happily exploring the forests around her home, and is astonished to find the animals seem to know her, to follow her, and even try to speak to her. When a family tragedy results in Chloe's abduction and sale to the vagabonds, she is taken deeper into the woods, and finds out just how much the animals know. Set at a time when technology is first touching the west, there is an evil rising in the land. The country is under attack, and all creatures, man and beast, must hide. The old legends speak of an ancient, natural magic deep within the mountains and rivers, and as Chloe struggles to survive, she finds that it still exists deep within the forests. Friendship can be found even in the darkest of places, and it doesn't always come in human form. Bridge of the Gods is a novel for all ages about the magical power of nature, and of finding friendship in the darkest of places.