Ecofiction

Ecofiction

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Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature-oriented (non-human) or environment-oriented (human impacts on nature) works of fiction.[1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1970s when various movements created the platform for an explosion of environmental and nature literature, which also inspired ecocriticism.[2] Ecocriticism is the study o
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The Overstory
Migrations
Flight Behavior
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Word for World Is Forest
Greenwood
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Bewilderment
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Birnam Wood
Once There Were Wolves
Borne (Borne, #1)
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
The Water Knife
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
Bad Company by K.A. MitchellClear Water by Amy LaneThe Happy Onion by Ally BlueBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneWe Are But A Moment by Ulrich Baer
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Richard Powers
“ (Culture) Some part of us could model some other modeler. and out of that simple loop came all the love and culture, the ridiculous overflow of gifts. ”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

Richard Powers
“ Creatures, all of whome heard humans and knew them as just a part of the wider network of sounds. Living things of every gauge, for whom the roadside bar was just another mound in the continuous test of the landscape, just another swarming node in the biome to exploit. ”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

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