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
Bewilderment
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1)
Greenwood
The Ministry for the Future
Weather
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Clade
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Manda Scott
We want to wake up and feel that we're useful, that we're leaving the world a better place for our children and their children. I hate feeling that I'm making everything worse because I'm locked in a system I can't change, that's destroying the world I love. I want to feel that I can do what I'm good at and be valued for it. We all do. Human creativity is absolutely f-ing amazing. There are people all round this country - the whole world - with ideas that could make things better if we could jus ...more
Manda Scott, Any Human Power

Richard Powers
(Memory) A few dozen cells, slung together in a lowly slug: already an infinitely reshaping machine, halfway to knowing. Matter that shaped other matter, a plastic record of light and sound, place and motion, change and resistance.
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

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