Eco-fiction Eco-fiction T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth ( 2000) is a story of environmental destruction. The novel is set in 2025; as a result of global warming and the greenhouse effect, the climate has drastically changed, and, accordingly, biodiversity is a thing of the past. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Friend of the Earth"
A Planet for the President ( 2004) is a novel by Alistair Beaton. Set in the not-too-distant future, it satirically ponders the question of what action the President of the United States might take if he finally realized that global climate change is converting the earth into an increasingly uninhabitable planet, also for Americans. Eventually persuaded by his aides to "think the unthinkable", the President in the novel, Fletcher J. Fletcher, greenlights drastic measures to stop environmental destruction and to secure for himself a place in history as the saviour of the earth. A biting political satire, A Planet for the President is a (deliberately) thinly disguised take on George W. Bush and his administration. The book has been hailed by a reviewer as " Dr Strangelove for the Eco generation" . ...more on Wikipedia about "A Planet for the President"
Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. This novel is about a cultural group of humans -- the Kesh -- who "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." (p. i) Part novel, part textbook, part anthropologist's record, Always Coming Home explains the life and culture of the Kesh people, anarchistic, introspective and bound to their land by ritual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Always Coming Home"
Dust is a 1998 science fiction novel by Charles Pellegrino depicting a collapse of the planet's ecosystem due to the disappearance of insects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dust (novel)"
Earth is a 1990 science fiction novel written by David Brin. The book was a 1990 Hugo Award nominee. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earth (novel)"
Earth Abides was published in 1949 by Berkeley English Professor George R. Stewart. The theme is one of Man vs. Nature, and the plot has the protagonist Isherwood Williams returning from a trip into the California mountains only to discover that a plague has wiped out nearly all of humanity and with it, human civilization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earth Abides"
Ecotage! was a 1972 paperback book edited by Sam Love and published by Pocket Books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecotage!"
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture, and the green movement in the 1970s and after. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecotopia"
Ecotopian fiction is a subgenre of Utopian fiction where the author posits either a utopian or dystopian world revolving around environmental conservation or destruction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ecotopian fiction"
Lucky You is a novel written by Carl Hiaasen in 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lucky You (novel)"
Carl Hiaasen's novel Sick Puppy ( 1999) is regarded by some to be perfect entertainment and food for thought. Hiaasen blends humour and commitment to serious causes, which enables the readers to enjoy themselves in spite of, or frequently even due to, not only the presentation of a never-ending series of bizarre scenes but also the depiction of cruel acts of assault and murder. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sick Puppy"
Silent Running is a science fiction movie made in 1971, directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Bruce Dern as the protagonist Freeman Lowell. It was made with a very limited budget but has since achieved a cult following. ...more on Wikipedia about "Silent Running"
Skinny Dip is a caper novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2004. Set in southern Florida in the course of April, 2003, it is about a young woman's revenge on her cheating husband after he has tried to murder her. Skinny Dip is also about environmental issues, in particular the protection of the Everglades as a natural habitat for a large variety of animal species. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skinny Dip"
State of Fear is a 2004 novel by Michael Crichton published by HarperCollins on December 7, 2004. Like most of his novels it is a techno-thriller, this time concerning eco-terrorists who threaten the Earth. Unusual for a novel but common among Crichton's work, the book contains many graphs and footnotes as well as two appendices and a twenty page bibliography. Crichton also chooses to include a statement of his own views on global climate change at the end of the book, stating that the world is heating up, but that the causes, consequences and benefits or harms of this change are unknown. He also argues passionately against the politicisation of science, for the preservation of wilderness and for the continuation of research into all aspects of the Earth's environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "State of Fear"
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts catastrophic effects of global warming and boasts high-end special effects, although the science the story is based on has little mainstream credibility. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Day After Tomorrow (film)"
The Fifth Sacred Thing (ISBN 0553373803) is a 1993 post-apocalyptic novel written by Starhawk. It describes a world set in the year 2048 after a catastrophe which has fractured the United States into at least several nations. The protaganists of the story are located in San Francisco and have evolved in the direction of Ecotopia, reverting to a sustainable economy, using wind power, local agriculture, and the like. To the south, though, an overtly- theocratic Christian fundamentalist nation has evolved and plans to wage war against the San Franciscans. The novel explores the events before and during the ensuing struggle between the two nations. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Fifth Sacred Thing"
The Gate to Women's Country (ISBN 0553280643) is a post-apocalyptic novel by Sheri S. Tepper written in 1988. It describes a world set three hundred years into the future after a catastrophic war which has fractured the United States into at least several nations. The protaganists of the story are located in Women's Country, apparently in the former Pacific Northwest. They have evolved in the direction of Ecotopia, reverting to a sustainable economy based on low-tech local agriculture and the like. They have also evolved into a nominal matriarchy where the women and children live within town walls (so-called women's country) and most of the men live outside the town walls in warrior camps. At the age of five, each young boy is sent off to leave his mother and join his father in the warrior camps. Later, he will be offered a choice: remain with his father and become a life-long warrior or return, ignominously, through the gate back into women's country where he will become a servitor to the women. It is rumoured among the warriors that the returning boys are castrated. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Gate to Women's Country"
The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian, the book dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United States. With the rise of a corporation-sponsored government, pollution levels in big cities have reached extreme levels and most people's health has been affected in some way. Continuing the style used in Stand on Zanzibar, there is a multi-strand narrative and many characters in the book never meet each other: some characters appear in one or two vignettes only. Similarly, instead of chapters, the book is broken up into sections which range from thirty words in length to several pages. The character of Austin Train in The Sheep Look Up serves a similar purpose to Xavier Conroy in The Jagged Orbit or to Chad Mulligan in Stand on Zanzibar: an academic who, despite predicting and interpretating social change, has become disillusioned by the failure of society to listen. This character is used both to drive the plot and to explain back-story to the reader. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Sheep Look Up"
The Three Californias Trilogy consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, that depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California (also known as Orange County Trilogy). The three books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. Each of these books describes the life of young people in the three very different near-futures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Three Californias Trilogy"
Zodiac (1988) is Neal Stephenson's second novel, which tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist pollutors and Satanists in the Boston Harbor. The "Zodiac" of the title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats the hero uses to get around the city efficiently. His opponents attempt to frame him as an ecoterrorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zodiac (novel)"
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