24 books
—
18 voters
Ecofiction
Ecofiction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 ...more
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 ...more
“
I one saw, on a flowerpot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to rebuild a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since i have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a non-existent tree, i think i am entitled to speak for the field mouse. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)
”
― The Night Country
― The Night Country
“
Words didn’t come. I couldn’t formulate a thought. I was too startled. These three figures lying in the sand in front of me weren’t surfers at all.
They weren’t even people.
From their facial features and upper torsos, they looked kind of like women, but all three of them had silver-colored skin. They were bald, with strange ridges marking their skulls. None of them seemed to have ears, only holes in the sides of their heads. No nose was visible, not even a bone or nostrils filled that space
...more
”
― Cry of the Sea
― Cry of the Sea
Begins on Tues, Aug 9 and ends on Tues Aug 23.
2 members,
last active 15 years ago
Ashland Creek Press is an independent, vegan-owned publisher of ecofiction, which includes books…more
19 members,
last active 6 months ago
Ecofiction, eco-fiction, green fiction--call it what you will, I believe it's an up-and-coming g…more
189 members,
last active 4 months ago
