Environmental Fiction

A World on the Brink of Collapse The Earth as we know it is unraveling. Unrelenting heat waves scorch the land. Cities crumble beneath rising oceans. Storms of unfathomable fury reshape coastlines overnight. Humanity stands at the precipice of annihilation, trapped in the aftermath of its own reckless consumption. In the heart of this unraveling world, Lila—a brilliant scientist and unyielding survivor—refuses to accept the inevitability of extinction. One Woman’s Fight for the Future Driven by an unshakable vision of renewal, Lila embarks on a perilous quest to restore balance to a ...

It’s the early 1970’s in the heart of New York City, a seemingly ordinary young man stumbles upon a restaurant offering an all-you-can-eat buffet for $4.95. Driven by an insatiable hunger, he embarks on a culinary journey that will leave the restaurant staff and patrons astounded. As plates of lobster, meatballs, shrimp, and countless other dishes are devoured at an alarming rate, the restaurant owner grows increasingly concerned. But the young man's appetite knows no bounds, and the owner's attempts to intervene only lead to further complications.

Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”

Embarking on a career as a financial advisor during the 2008 recession may not have been ideal, but Joe made it work. Now, successful and happily married to Maria, life is more than good—until a catastrophic market collapse destroys the global economy and pulls the plug on technology. Forced to abandon the useless luxury he’d worked so hard to attain and face the fact that his skills are worthless in this new economy, Joe’s sense of failure begins to freeze out the only good thing left—his love for Maria. With the epic action of Jules Verne, the spiritual insight of Yann Martel, and...

EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS THREATEN HUMANITY AS GLOBAL WARMING REACHES NEW LIMITS. CAN MANKIND CONTROL THEIR DESTINY? Following the Battle of Malacca, Plasticity Island expanded rapidly and seceded from the United States of America to become The Republic of Gyreland. Brent Brodie and his team take on the challenge of reducing Global Warming, surviving rising ocean levels, and controlling violent weather patterns. From the thermosphere to all the major oceans and continents of the world, the action never stops. No Country is immune from the struggle for fresh drinking water, food, and ...

Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her, others are similarly vanishing, yet no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive.

Welcome to Backyard County, Mississippi—where the dirt is rich, the compost is gourmet, and the worms are smarter than they look. Meet Riley the Red Worm, a scrappy, sharp-witted underdog who just wants peace, quiet, and a prime spot in the compost heap. But when the legendary Night Crawler Nate slithers in from Fisher’s County with charm, muscle, and a mysterious agenda, Riley finds himself in the middle of the squirmiest showdown the soil has ever seen. With an all-star cast of bug buddies, a moldy villain threatening the entire garden, and a secret human experiment creeping closer ...

Reviewer: "Anu's adventures get even better as her relationship with Sonri deepens. I love her friend, the monkey called Toama and the scenes in the ocean with the dolphin. What a great story!" A lot of readers are writing to me asking where did I get the idea for Original Earth? Well, I have always loved the story of The Jungle Book and also Tarzan and asked myself, why not a child growing up in the jungle of an alien planet? It would mean a new beginning, a new start, a clean canvas for humankind... If you enjoyed Original Earth Book One, you are going to love Book Two. I’m jealous of ...

Mr. Fish and his friends have noticed something strange in their ocean - a big, big mess! How did it get there? What can they do about it? The closer they look, the more they see where the mess came from...and they'll have to work together to get rid of it.

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made-and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back.

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, easy-to-understand chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before.

Between Cade and Rae is an ancient wall so huge its edges are lost to memory. There’s no way through. But one precious stone brings them together to share their horrors of the past, and dreams of the future, and to shake their notions of what is false…and what is true. Wallflowers is an ethereal, alternate-reality short story that will get you thinking about the battles we choose to fight, and those we don’t, and the power of breaking through barriers for a better tomorrow.

In 2019, 70-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat.

When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people’s water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.

Morgan Michael a chaplain who does the hospice circuit. This is the first published journal of what happened one day on the job. If you are up for mystery and people making the most of their final moments and the choices, they make. Naturally the stories include the best and worst of the human experience, so we have conspiracies, murder, mayhem, rape and revenge. The members of “The Society”, all have contracted the exact same lethal non-communicable cancer. For the last 50 plus years they have been fighting the battle against ecological degradation of the planet in their own way. They ...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature.

“An invigorating kickoff to a fantasy series.” – Kirkus Reviews “Fast-paced and filled to the brim with mystery, action, and intrigue. Imagine the Harry Potter series but set in a futuristic underwater sci-fi setting.” – Readers’ Favorite ★★★★★ Twelve-year-old Jo Moonstone has never ridden a giant seahorse. She’s never had to fight a mega shark. All Jo wanted to do was stay home with her great aunt Ellie and pretend she isn’t different. Everything changes one stormy night when a lightning-flinging villain attacks Jo’s home. Now Jo has one chance to keep her ...

As modern day Northern Colorado grapples with the reintroduction of wolves to their forests, an intrepid old west Marshal and her brother, the Huntsman, must join forces with woodland creatures to track down a wolf and rescue the young daughter of a local rancher who went missing. Set long after Red Riding Hood graduated from Colorado State University, this whimsical and enchanting retelling of the classic bedtime story shows there is a greater danger than you might have imagined from those who would “cry wolf.” For older readers, this book also contains the history of the myths that ...

NOTE: This narrative was composed prior to the significant shifts in U.S. environmental protection policies that have taken place recently under President Trump. As a consequence of these radical changes, the federal government’s involvement and intervention, as depicted in the story, would no longer be applicable in the current context. The landscape of environmental regulation has evolved, leading to a much more relaxed approach in handling ecological concerns and the responsibilities of federal agencies in protecting consumer rights. In a quiet, picturesque countryside, a retired ...

In the high-stakes world of a middle school science fair, Marie Lane has one goal: to win first prize. Her ambitious project—a self-sustaining ecosystem that could survive in any environment—pushes her to the edge of possibility. With her supportive mother by her side and her inspiring teacher, Mrs. Thompson, guiding her every step, Marie is determined to take on the ultimate challenge. But the path to success is far from easy. Her first attempt ends in spectacular failure, leaving her questioning everything. Yet, with each setback, she discovers something even more valuable—...