Amy Brady

Oct 22, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Amy Brady

Few novelists are as adept at inspiring both horror and awe as Jeff VanderMeer. The author is perhaps best known for his award-winning Southern Reach series, of which the first three installments—Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance—were published in 2014. The books follow cadres of scientists on expeditions into Area X, a swath of pristine wilderness along Florida’s coast where nature has inexplicably shifted, changing not only itself but anyone or anything deemed a threat to its existence.

Dec 2, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Amy Brady

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Dec 2, 2023 | discovermagazine.com | Amy Brady

This story was originally published in our Sept/Oct 2023 issue as "Cold Comfort" to subscribe to read more stories like this one. One year before the U.S. Civil War ended, an embargo had brought the southern ice trade to a halt, causing the region's chefs, bartenders, nurses and doctors to lose access to the northern ice they'd come to rely on for preserving food, making drinks and healing bodies. Without ice, the South was suffering.

Nov 15, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Amy Brady

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their livesIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought.

Jul 3, 2023 | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Amy Brady