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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
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If it doesn’t honor the Earth and it doesn’t protect the people, it’s not worth building.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)
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Ashland Creek Press is an independent, vegan-owned publisher of ecofiction, which includes books…more
19 members,
last active 5 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 3 months ago
Begins on Tues, Aug 9 and ends on Tues Aug 23.
2 members,
last active 15 years ago
