Ecological Disasters

A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing...

The world is clean. The world is dead. The EcoMites were humanity's greatest achievement—microscopic machines that dissolved pollution, purified water, and healed our dying planet. Then their definition of "pollution" changed. Now they consume everything organic. Everything alive. Everything except one man and his sanctuary. Dr. Joseph Kellerman is the last man on Earth, surviving alone at Alaska's Aurora Station while generators fail one by one. Outside his protective bubble, the air shimmers with invisible death. Inside, he talks to ghosts—his dead wife, his lost colleagues—as his ...

An ecological disaster of global proportions is sweeping the land, the result of failed government experimentation. What started out as an attempt to create a drought- resistant class of pollinator, has gone dreadfully wrong. Now worldwide extinction threatens all life forms. Dropped into this expanding devastation are two teens, orphaned when their scientist parents are kidnapped by the government. Desperate times call for desperate measures and topping the list is the need uncover the government’s sinister plot. It’s not what they think. The very world balances on an ever-deepening ...

First Prize - International Firebird Book Awards for both Cli-Fi and Best Unconventional Love Story! Literary Titan Gold Book Award and Bookview Review Gold Badge Award! "offers far more than a typical science fiction adventure" "masterfully weaves sci-fi action with political satire" Is Earth ready for an extraterrestrial visitor warning about a climate catastrophe? Dee didn't plan to become the world's most wanted illegal alien. He just wanted to save a dying planet. A cyborg ANT from Bilaluna, Dee crash-lands in a Mexican cenote and embarks on an epic road trip from the Yucatan to the ...

It was designed to survive anything. It was never supposed to leave the laboratory. When an agricultural agent in rural South Carolina notices something strange happening to a greenhouse crop, the first samples raise more questions than answers. The organism is alive. It is spreading. And it doesn't behave like anything found in nature. Hundreds of miles away, a biotechnology company already knows what it is. PERSEUS was built from mirror-image biology—life constructed with a chemistry fundamentally different from the natural world. Its creators believed that difference made it safe. ...

Alexa is my older sister. But she is more than that. She is my protector. My surrogate mother. And my provider. Ever since our parents disappeared, we've been fending for ourselves. It's what you do when you have no other choice. It's live or die. Mix in a bit of boredom...and well, she didn't think I would wander beyond the boundaries set for our safety, but a chance meeting with a member of the Imbroglio gang was too much to pass up. And why should she have all the adventures? Sneaking through cellars and eavesdropping on the gangs plans, I discover that Avalon is in grave danger. What ...

The world does not end with a zombie, vampire, or werewolf uprising. Evil wizards do not cast their spells. Rampaging robots do not takeover, nor do disagreeable aliens invade. We are human beings. We need no help in bringing about the Apocalypse. The travelers depicted in this novel journey through a time of unprecedented climate change. Warming earth temperatures begin to significantly melt arctic permafrost releasing long stored methane gas. The released methane reaches a level in the atmosphere that causes global temperatures to rapidly rise beyond all predictions. The accelerated ...

In the not-so-distant future, a team of visionary scientists, led by the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Olivia Bennett, uncovers the secret to creating mirror versions of DNA, proteins, and other vital biomolecules. These mirror molecules, identical in every way except for their reversed structure, hold the potential to revolutionize medicine by creating drugs that are more effective and less prone to resistance. They could also lead to manufacturing processes that are cleaner and more efficient than ever before. Despite the growing concerns, a rogue faction within the scientific community ...

'A beautiful story of intrigue and mystery' PETER F. HAMILTON 'Loss Protocol is Paul McAuley on top form' KIM NEWMAN 'An eco-thriller like no other from one of Britain's best SF writers' THE GUARDIAN 'Which one feels realer, truer. The world we lived in most of our lives, or the world we dreamed...

Obsessed. Driven. Blinded By Pain. Avalon’s pride is her downfall. Abandoned at an early age and obsessed with the knowledge that her parents may still live, she sneaks away in the early morning hours. Determined to discover the truth she confronts the deadliest ghetto in all of Solace. Bad move. Driven by guilt, anger and a healthy dose of reckless abandon, Avalon runs head on into the deadly virus sweeping the world. The clock is ticking. Can her trusted allies administer a cure before the disease claims her life? Only her parents know for sure. Grab the next installment in this eco-...

An ancient forest is dying from the roots up. Dr. Owen Packard is called to the Cascades to investigate a massive ecological collapse. He expects to find a fungal infection or a toxic soil anomaly. He does not expect to find footprints the size of snowshoes and soil samples that defy earthly biology. Helix Frontier, a shadowy private military corporation, arrives to take over the quarantine zone. They are not there to save the trees. They are hunting an anomaly that guards a doorway to somewhere else. When an unauthorized tactical strike goes wrong, Owen and his lead acoustic researcher ...

The rise of gang warfare. A deadly encounter. Dreams shattered. Mitch has big plans and high hopes. A star football linebacker, Mitch has the confidence and the strength to tackle the world after graduation, but the city is in serious trouble. The economy is dying, the environment is suffering, and people are abandoning the once prosperous town. Crime is on the rise and now, the government is building a top-secret facility on the edge of town. What does it all mean? Young Mitch wants nothing more than to escape his rising hopelessness and dead-end opportunities. But catastrophic losses, ...

Bloomsbury presents The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, read by Anne Twomey ________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is...

The last decade has seen an explosion of urban beekeeping in the US, Canada, and Europe, a well-intentioned response to perceived threats to the global honey bee population. Many thousands of people have taken up this seemingly environmentally friendly hobby, tending backyard and rooftop hives (or paying a company to do so) and encouraging honey bees to make honey and pollinate flowers. What could be wrong with that? Quite a lot, in fact. In The Honey Trap, scientist and author Dana Church demonstrates that despite reports to the contrary, honey bees are nowhere near extinction.

Orphaned. Alone. Starving. The land is dying. As resources dwindle, the population is placed at the mercy of a secretive government, which operates on its own agenda. Critical top-level scientists researching the ecological disaster have gone missing, their disappearance a cold case file that haunts the local constabulary. Desperate for answers, the police captain hatches a plan to recover a critical key to the land’s survival. What they need is an experienced thief, and they know just the girl. Avalon is not just any burglar; she is an uncommonly good one. Caught in the act of stealing, ...

Four teenagers. One killer bee sting. A ticking clock to find a cure that shouldn't exist. When Avalon collapses from a government-engineered bee attack, her sister Alexa watches helplessly as the venom spreads. The doctors have no answers. The resistance has no cure. And the quarantine room might become a tomb for four teens who dared to fight back. But Dr. Song isn't ready to give up. Somewhere in Avalon and Alexa's blood lies the secret to their immunity—a resistance born from years of exposure to their parents' banned research. If he can unlock it before the venom claims all four ...

2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award A 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection “Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir…. Profoundly moving.”—Library Journal, starred review In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope Wylodine comes...

'It's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The Earth is already in a dangerous phase of heating. Many scientists admit privately to actually being "scared" by recent weather extremes. But...

Editorial Review A chilling, slow-burn thriller that turns environmental collapse into relentless psychological terror, Silent Extinction grips readers from the first anomaly to its haunting final line. Fans of The Happening will recognize the quiet dread of a world failing without warning — but this story pushes the concept further, grounding the fear in procedural realism and human cost. The result is a disciplined, unsettling novel that lingers long after the last page, proving that the most terrifying disasters are the ones that unfold in silence. SILENT EXTINCTION A True Documented ...

Reckless. Determined. Obsessed. Sixteen year old Avalon is a scrappy street kid. Her sister Alexa has never been apart from Avalon-that is until Avalon abandons her to chase after a dangerous gang, who might just be the key to their missing parents. When clues surface, hinting at the truth behind their disappearance, Avalon packs her rucksack to leave. Panicked, Alexa begs her to stay, but Avalon ignores her plea. Oblivious to personal danger, she races to confront a dangerous adversary-the notorious Firebrand gang. One thought consumes Avalon. What is the Firebrand gang’s connection to ...