Recently, I have expressed a lot of frustration with some novels set in the midst of climate change, if not fully tackling the subject head-on. I am not surprised by these feelings, though it concerns me that at this late hour, it still feels like we are floundering on cohesive narratives that extend beyond “humans…
Continue reading ➞ The Forest On The Edge of Time – Mud Into Gods
Terrestrial History, by Joe Mungo Reed, caught my eye with its heavy title and stark cover art. Its premise was just as intriguing, promising time travel and four generations within the same family as they dealt with climate change and the colonization of Mars. And while there are some really exciting ideas at play within…
Continue reading ➞ Terrestrial History – Best Left to the Nerds
In an effort to catch up on some of the new releases, I wanted to focus on books that seemed to place climate change front and center. One of these is Thomas R. Weaver’s debut Artificial Wisdom. Unfortunately, while it does ask some interesting questions in latter parts of the book, the build up left…
If 2024 was my year of diving into whatever the hell I wanted, 2025 is the year I become completely unhinged about climate change in fiction. Having grown up in the late nineties and early 2000s, I thought maybe, just maybe, the governments of the world would figure this shit out. But instead, we’re being…
Continue reading ➞ All The Water In The World – The Levees Will Break
I have been very excited to come around to this review slot in our schedule because I noticed on Goodreads that The City Inside, by Samit Basu, hasn’t been getting much love and I have some thoughts. Apparently, there is a severe case of illiteracy going around. Sitting at a strange length right between a…
I know you come to a book review site to find books that can help you escape from the world, but unfortunately I am that guy, the one who brings you screaming back to reality. I am talking, of course, about climate fiction, and boy was this book a treat. I’ve only read one other…
Continue reading ➞ The Past Is Red – Endearing, Compassionate and Impassioned
Climate change is an issue that has plagued me ever since I walked out of the theater after seeing An Inconvenient Truth. I was always a bit of an environmentalist, having been exposed to Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest as a small child, but this felt bigger than my seventeen-year-old brain could comprehend. The documentary…
Continue reading ➞ Perihelion Summer – Maybe Some Will Like It Hot
