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• Clode, Danielle, and Monika Stasiak. "Fictional Depictions of Climate Change." International Journal of Climate Change, vol. 5 no.4, 2014, pp. 19-29.
• Goodbody, Axel, and Adeline Johns-Putra. "The Rise of the Climate Change Novel." Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 229-245.
• Trexler, Adam, and Adeline Johns‐Putra. "Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change vol. 2 no.2, 2011, pp. 185-200.

• Razzak, Abdul. "Description of Utopia in Marshall Brain’s' Manna:'An Analysis." Electronic Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities vol. 2, 2020, pp. 16-22.
• *Widerquist, Karl. Review of Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future, by Marshall Brain. 2016, p. 12, www.citizensincome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CIT_Newsletter_2015_Issue_1.pdf [review is on p. 12]

• Lohmann, Roger Ivar. “Fiction in Fact: Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia and the Creation of a Green Culture with Anthropological Ingredients.” Anthropology & Humanism, vol. 43, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 178–195. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/anhu.12217.
• Mathisen, Werner Christine. “The Underestimation of Politics in Green Utopias: The Description of Politics in Huxley’s Island, Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and Callenbach’s Ecotopia.” Utopian Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 56-78. EBSCOhost.
• *Smith, Brian. “A Child of Dystopia Reads Ecotopia.” Earth Island Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2011, p. 63. EBSCOhost.
• *Vonnegut, Kurt. "Letters to the Young." Nation, vol. 234, no. 20, May 1982, p. 621. EBSCOhost.
• Other Ecotopia articles and book reviews.

• *Reid, Rob. “Rocketing through Science Fiction.” Booklist, vol. 112, Nov. 2015, pp. 38-39. EBSCOhost.
• *Review of The Islands at the End of the World, by Austin Aslan. Kirkus Reviews, vol. 82, no. 11, June 2014, p. 329. EBSCOhost.
• *Spisak, April. "The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, vol. 68 no.3, 2014, p.143.

• Cassuto, David N. "Turning Wine into Water: Water as Privileged Signifier in The Grapes of Wrath." Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 29, no.1, 1993,  pp. 67-95.
• *Davis, Robert Murray. “The World of John Steinbeck’s Joads.” World Literature Today, vol. 64, no. 3, Summer 1990, pp. 401-404. EBSCOhost.
• Dalmaso, Renata Lucena. "“Modern Monsters,” Old Habits: Nature, Humans, and Technology in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." The Steinbeck Review, vol. 12 no.1, 2015, pp. 26-38.
• *Gilbert, Bil. “Prince of Tides.” Smithsonian, vol. 32, no. 10, Jan. 2002, pp. 95-99. EBSCOhost.
• Heavilin, Barbara A. "A Sacred Bond Broken: The People versus the Land in The Grapes of Wrath." The Steinbeck Review, vol. 14 no.1, 2017, pp. 23-38.
• *Kronenberger, Louis. Nation, vol. 148, no. 16, Apr. 1939, pp. 440-441. EBSCOhost.
• *Shillinglaw, Susan. “Impertinent Questions with Susan Shillinglaw.” Humanities, vol. 35, no. 5, Sept. 2014, p. 54. EBSCOhost.
• *Steinbeck, John. “The Grapes of Wrath.” Literary Cavalcade, vol. 53, no. 7, Apr. 2001, pp. 8-10. EBSCOhost,
• Webb, Allen. "Opening the Conversation about Climate Refugees with The Grapes of Wrath." English Journal, vol. 109 no.2, 2019, pp. 69-75.
• *Williamson, Kevin D. “The Grapes of Rand.” National Review, vol. 65, no. 12, July 2013, pp. 35-38. EBSCOhost.
• Other Wrath of Grapes articles.

• Bellwoar, Hannah, et al. “Station Eleven: A Panel Discussion.” Juniata Voices, vol. 17, Jan. 2017, pp. 16–24. EBSCOhost,
• Eve, Martin Paul. "Reading Very Well for Our Age: Hyperobject Metadata and Global Warming in Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven." Open Library of Humanities, vol. 4 no.1, 2018, pp. 1-27. doi:10.16995/olh.155.
• *Lee, Stephan. “‘I Feel as If I Won The Lottery.’” Entertainment Weekly, no. 1331, Oct. 2014, p. 74. EBSCOhost.
• Thorn, Tracey. “Off the Record.” New Statesman, vol. 144, no. 5262, May 2015, p. 63. EBSCOhost.
• *Tuttle, Ian. “To Carry the Fire.” National Review, vol. 66, no. 24, Dec. 2014, p. 28-30. EBSCOhost,
• *Valby, Karen. “Station Eleven.” Entertainment Weekly, no. 1329/1330, Sept. 2014, p. 134. EBSCOhost.
• Vermeulen, Pieter. "Beauty That Must Die: Station Eleven, Climate Change Fiction, and the Life of Form." Studies in the Novel, vol. 50 no.1, 2018, pp. 9-25.
• Other Station Eleven articles.

• Chen, Pei-yun. "Landscape in Motion: Wu Ming-Yi’s Novels and Translation." Ex-position, Issue 41, June 2019, pp.155-165. https://doi.org/10.6153/EXP.201906_(41).0010.
• Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena. "Wu's the man with the compound eyes and the worlding of environmental literature." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture vol. 16 no.4, 2014, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2554
• *Ming-Yi, Wu. "Q & A: Wu Ming-Yi." Ex-position, Issue No. 41, June 2019, pp.137-145. https://doi.org/10.6153/EXP.201906_(41).0008
• *Sterk, Darryl. “What I Learned Translating Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man With the Compound Eyes.” Compilation & Translation Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Sept. 2013, pp. 253–261. EBSCOhost
• Tsai, Robin Chen-Hsing. "Speculating Extinction: Eco-Accidents, Solastalgia, and Object Lessons in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes." Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 55 no.4, 2018, pp. 864-876.

• *Dowell, Jennifer M. “‘When I’m Writing, I’m Listening to Voices in My Head.’” AudioFile, vol. 21, no. 4, Dec. 2012, p. 40. EBSCOhost.
• *Edwards, Lynnell. “Barbara Kingsolver: Sentence Mechanic.” Louisville Magazine, vol. 63, no. 12, Dec. 2012, p. 20. EBSCOhost.
• Evangeline, A. "Analysing the Nature  and the Climatic Changes Through the Novel “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver." International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, vol. 3 no. 7, 2018, pp. 99-101.
• Gade, Sr Innyasamma. "Climate Change and its Impact in Barbara Kingsolver’s Novel Flight Behavior." Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis, edited by Shruti Das, Authors Press, 2019, pp.121-129.
• *Glose, Bill. “The Butterfly Effect.” Virginia Living, vol. 11, no. 2, Feb. 2013, p. 25. EBSCOhost.
• Goodbody, Axel. "Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow’s Melting Ice." The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture, edited Sylvia Mayer & Alexa Weik von Mossner, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014, pp. 39-58.
• Houser, Heather. "Knowledge Work and the Commons in Barbara Kingsolver's and Ann Pancake's Appalachia." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 63 no.1, 2017, pp. 95-115.
• *Sandronsky, Seth. “Flying Patterns.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, vol. 66, no. 4, Sept. 2014, p. 61. EBSCOhost.
• Siperstein, Stephen. Review of Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 700-701.
• *Walsh, Bryan. “Barbara Kingsolver.” Time Magazine, vol. 180, no. 16, Oct. 2012, pp. 54–55. EBSCOhost.
• Other Flight Behavior articles.

• Note: Sea and Summer is also published as The Drowning Towers
• Milner, Andrew. "The Sea and Eternal Summer: Science Fiction, Futurology and Climate Change." Swamphen: A Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ), vol. 3, 2013, pp. 125-131.
• *Review of Drowning Towers, by George Turner. Magill Book Reviews, 15 July 1990. EBSCOhost.
• Weaver, Roslyn. "“The Four Horsemen of the Greenhouse Apocalypse”: Apocalypse in the Science Fiction Novels of George Turner." Forum, vol. 5, 2007, pp. 1-12. 
• Other The Sea and Summer articles.

• Hageman, Andrew. “The Challenge of Imagining Ecological Futures: Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, July 2012, pp. 283-303. EBSCOhost.
• Murphey, Kathleen. “The Phoenix Moment as Another Vehicle for Normalizing Rape Culture.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal (2151-3066), vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 190–198. EBSCOhost.
• *Paskus, Laura. “Bacigalupi’s World.” Progressive, vol. 73, no. 11, Nov. 2009, pp. 38-40. EBSCOhost.
• Selisker, Scott. "“Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl." Science Fiction Studies, vol. 42 no.3, 2015, pp. 500-518.
• Straetz, Juliane. "The Struggle of Being Alive: Laboring Bodies in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl." Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 18 no.1, 2017.
• *Vinita, C. Keren. "What Does Our Future Hold? An Eco-Marxist Analysis of the Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi." Bodhi International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, Arts and Science,vol. 2, no.7, 2018, pp. 98-101.
• Other The Windup Girl articles.

• *Gevaux, David. “Physicists in the Glare of the Sun.” Nature Physics, vol. 6, no. 4, Apr. 2010, pp. 236–237. EBSCOhost.
• *Griggs, Jessica. “Funny Thing, Climate.” New Scientist, vol. 206, no. 2754, Apr. 2010, pp. 24–25. EBSCOhost.
• Habibi, Seyed Javad. "Incredulity Towards Global-Warming Crisis: Ecocriticism in Ian McEwan’s Solar." 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, vol. 21 no.1, 2015, 91-102.
• Özmen, Cansu Özge. "Global Disasters and Personal Responses in Ian McEwan’s Solar." Humanitas: International Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 6. no.12, 2018, pp. 1-9. doi:10.20304/humanitas.374930.
• *Robson, Leo. “Total Eclipse.” New Statesman, vol. 139, no. 4993, Mar. 2010, p. 52. EBSCOhost.
• *Sacks, Sam. “Accident Prone.” Commentary, vol. 130, no. 1, July 2010, pp. 116-118. EBSCOhost.
• Tate, Andrew William. "The Storm-Cloud of the Twenty-First Century: Ciblical Apocalypse, Climate Change and Ian McEwan’s Solar." Glass vol. 29, 2017, pp. 3-10.
• *Walsh, Bryan. “Sunburn.” Time Magazine, vol. 175, no. 13, Apr. 2010, pp. 53–54. EBSCOhost.
• *Yabroff, Jennie. “The Neverending Story.” Newsweek, vol. 155, no. 13, Mar. 2010, p. 52. EBSCOhost.
• *Zemanek, Evi. "A Dirty Hero’s fight for clean energy: Satire, allegory, and risk narrati in Ian McEwan’s solar." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment vol. 3 no.1, 2012, pp.51-60.
• Other Solar articles.

• Chong, Elaine. "Facing the Sublime: The Zombie Figure, Climate Change, and the Crisis of Categorization." Emergence: A Journal of Undergraduate Literary Criticism and Creative Research, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 1-14.
• *Foy, Meagan. "The Popular Zombie Narrative Improved in World War Z." Keezell Review, Spring 2018. thekeezellreview.com/spring-2018-academia/the-popular-zombie-narrative-improved-in-world-war-z
• *Phillips, Bill. "“Robbed of Our Confidence as the Planet’s Dominant Life-Form:” Max Brooks’s Zombie Wars." Coolabah, vol. 18, 2016, pp. 112-123.
• *Sutton, Jayme. "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." Naval War College Review, vol. 63 no.3, 2010, pp. 166-167. EBSCOhost.
• *"What College Kids Can Learn From 'The Zombie War.'" Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 10 Sept. 2010, www.npr.org/2012/09/07/160758839/what-college-kids-can-learn-from-the-zombie-war
• *Review of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks. Kirkus Reviews, vol. 74, no. 13, July 2006, p. 644. EBSCOhost.
• Other World War Z articles.

• *Bethune, Brian. “Atwood Apocalyptic.” Maclean’s, vol. 116, no. 17, Apr. 2003, p. 44-49. EBSCOhost.
• *Breslin, John B., and Tracy Alig Dowling. “In Their Own Image.” America, vol. 189, no. 4, Aug. 2003, p. 24-25. EBSCOhost,
• *Griffiths, Anthony. “Genetics According to Oryx and Crake.” Canadian Literature, no. 181, Summer 2004, pp. 192-195. EBSCOhost,
• *Mujica, Barbara. “Oryx and Crake.” Americas, vol. 55, no. 5, Oct. 2003, p. 55-56. EBSCOhost.
• *Posner, Richard A. “The End Is Near.” New Republic, vol. 229, no. 12, Sept. 2003, p. 31-36. EBSCOhost.
• *Riesman, Abraham. “108 Minutes with ... Margaret Atwood.” New York, vol. 49, no. 16, Aug. 2016, pp. 20-22. EBSCOhost.
• Rozelle, Lee. “Liminal Ecologies in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Oryx and Crake.’” Canadian Literature, no. 206, Sept. 2010, pp. 61–72. EBSCOhost
• *Shulevitz, Judith. “Tomorrow’s Blistered Hellscape Today.” New Republic, vol. 244, no. 16, Oct. 2013, pp. 14–15. EBSCOhost.
• Other Oryx & Crake articles.

• Hollister, Michael. Review of Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin. 2009, www.amerlit.com/novels/ANALYSIS%20LeGuin,%20Ursula%20The%20Lathe%20of%20Heaven%20(1971)%20analysis.pdf9.
• Stone, Katie. "The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction, and Ethics for the Anthropocene." Utopian Studies, vol. 31 no.1, 2020, pp. 227-233.
• *Walsh, William. “I Am a Woman Writer; I Am a Western Writer: An Interview with Ursula Le Guin.” Kenyon Review, vol. 17, Summer/Fall95 1995, pp. 192-205. EBSCOhost.
• *Yogurtian, Melanie. "It Takes Two: The Making of a Monster in Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven." The Frankenstein Meme, Retrieved from https://frankensteinmeme.com/the-frankenstein-meme-journals/the-frankenstein-meme-journal/it-takes-two-the-making-of-a-monster-in-ursula-le-guins-the-lathe-of-heaven-by-melanie-yogurtian/. Accessed 2 May 2020.
• Other Lathe of Heaven articles.

Note: Green Earth was also published as 40 Signs of Rain.

• *Allen, Myles. “Plotting the Course of Climate Change.” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6986, Apr. 2004, p. 894. EBSCOhost.
• Cho, K.Daniel. “‘When a Chance Came for Everything to Change’: Messianism and Wilderness in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Abrupt Climate Change Trilogy.” Criticism, vol. 53, no. 1, Winter 2011, pp. 23–51. EBSCOhost.
• Heer, Jeet. “The New Utopians.” New Republic, vol. 246, no. 13, Dec. 2015, pp. 46–51. EBSCOhost.

• *Keane, James T. “The Otherworldly Science Fiction of China’s Cixin Liu.” America, vol. 219, no. 4, Aug. 2018, pp. 44-45. EBSCOhost.
• *Morrison, Michael A. “The Three-Body Problem.” World Literature Today, vol. 89, no. 5, Sept. 2015, pp. 63-64. EBSCOhost, doi:10.7588/worllitetoda.89.5.0063.
• *Ross, David A. “The Three-Body Problem/The Dark Forest.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. 38, Jan. 2016, pp. 90–93. EBSCOhost.
• Song, Mingwei. “After 1989: The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction.” China Perspectives, no. 1, Mar. 2015, pp. 7–13. EBSCOhost.
• *Suderman, Peter. “The Hidden Mind.” Reason, vol. 48, no. 8, Jan. 2017, pp. 50-55. EBSCOhost.

• Book reviews: Publishers Weekly and Kirkus