The Diapause by Andrew Forbes
If “diapause” is not a word you are familiar with, you should probably look it up before approaching Andrew Forbes’ new novel of the near future.
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We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed
In We Speak Through the Mountain, we get to revisit the world built in Mohamed’s previous book, The Annual Migration of Clouds, in which Reid lives in a pulled-together community in the future living off scraps left behind by a society that no longer exists.
Excerpt: The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
Hello.
I know you are scared. It’s okay. I know, I know. All this is frightening.
Against the Machine: Evolution — a Fitting Cap to Van Norman’s Trilogy
Against the Machine: Evolution is a richly imagined story that also serves as a cautionary tale for what might happen if we don’t take better care of the environment.
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
For those who enjoy dystopian science fiction, there’s a lot to like in Camp Zero.
Aquariums, by J.D. Kurtness, translated by Pablo Strauss
Whales, researchers, and colourful ancestors play key roles in Aquariums, a novel by J.D. Kurtness. Aquariums follows the story of protagonist Émeraude Pic, a biologist who creates habitats for specimens of endangered species.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
Excerpt: Reversing Time by Charlotte Mendel
Reversing Time: One Boy’s Quest to Change History is the full title of a new work of fiction by Charlotte Mendel. It is being published by Guernica Editions and will be released on December 1st, 2021.
Watershed by Doreen Vanderstoop
In her debut novel, Watershed, Doreen Vanderstoop envisions a future in which water, a life-giving resource that we take for granted, is not easily obtainable.
The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes
The Doomsday Book Of Fairy Tales By Emily Brewes is an astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future.
Blaze Island by Catherine Bush
Blaze Island opens with a Category Five hurricane off one of Newfoundland’s most northern Islands, a ferry ride from Gander. Rain and wind batter the Island and the home of Milan Wells and his daughter. A disturbance from the front door finds a young man, soaked and unconscious. Catherine Bush tells us a story of …
A Diary in the Age of Water by Nina Munteanu
Centuries from now, in a dying boreal forest in what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, yearns for Earth’s past–the Age of Water, before the “Water Twins” destroyed humanity.
Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times, edited by Catriona Sandilands
In the introduction to Rising Tides, Sandilands states that climate change stories “focus increasingly on thornier questions of persistence, adaptation, resistance, and renewal” instead of apocalypse. Ultimately, the short fiction, poetry and personal climate testimonies in this climate change anthology are about hope.
