Thank you for a terrific round up of eco-fiction, which includes several of my favorite novels and several that I'll now check out. In the years since this was first written there have been more great novels published that fall more into the general fiction than the science fiction category. Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass and Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark come to mind. There have always been wonderful novels of place, like My Antonia by Willa Cather or those of John Casey, but with the urgency of problems related to climate change, as you say, novels that center on environment are becoming a genre unto themselves.
Thank you for a terrific round up of eco-fiction, which includes several of my favorite novels and several that I'll now check out. In the years since this was first written there have been more great novels published that fall more into the general fiction than the science fiction category. Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass and Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark come to mind. There have always been wonderful novels of place, like My Antonia by Willa Cather or those of John Casey, but with the urgency of problems related to climate change, as you say, novels that center on environment are becoming a genre unto themselves.