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Nina Munteanu Identified as a Leading Voice in Eco-SciFi Fiction

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 2d

Nina Munteanu identified as a leading voice in Eco-SciFi Fiction #ecofiction #climatefiction #books ninamunteanu.me/2025/09/07/n...

Inventor/author Kyo Hwang Cho recently identified Nina Munteanu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jeff VanderMeer, and Richard Powers as Leading Voices in Eco-Science Fiction in an article on the Li…

Gaia’s Revolution: A View of a Post-Capitalist Future

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 2d

I'm anticipating its release by Dragon Moon Press either late this year or more likely early 2026. Looking forward to it! #books #upcomingreleases #ecofiction #climatefiction

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · Nov 19

My upcoming book Gaia’s Revolution (Book 1 of The Icaria Trilogy by Dragon Moon Press) explores a collapsing capitalist society in Canada through ravages of climate change and a failing technology. #upcoming #books #sciencefiction #political #thriller ninamunteanu.me/2024/11/17/g...

My upcoming book Gaia’s Revolution (Book 1 of The Icaria Trilogy by Dragon Moon Press) explores a collapsing capitalist society in Canada through ravages of climate change and a failing technology.…

Gaia’s Revolution: A View of a Post-Capitalist Future

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 2d

What might a post-capitalist world look like? My upcoming book "Gaia's Revolution" teases out one possible scenario... #books #DragonMoonPress #scifi #postcapitalism #technocracy #ecofiction ninamunteanu.me/2024/11/17/g...

My upcoming book Gaia’s Revolution (Book 1 of The Icaria Trilogy by Dragon Moon Press) explores a collapsing capitalist society in Canada through ravages of climate change and a failing technology.…

Book Review: A Discussion on Costi Gurgu’s Political Thriller Servitude

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 2d

Book review: Costi Gurgu's political thriller "Servitude" #capitalism #bookcritique #books #politicalthriller #debt #Corporatocracy ninamunteanu.me/2022/12/18/a...

In Costi Gurgu’s near-future political thriller Servitude (Kult Books, 2022), what is real and what is fiction blurs with terrible prescience and possibility. Gurgu has created a scenario based on …

Nina Munteanu: Revisiting “Through the Portal Anthology” - Simon Rose

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d

Check out my interview on fellow SF Canada writer Simon Rose's site about "Through the Portal" anthology I co-edited with Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social #anthology #ecofiction #interview simon-rose.com/nina-muntean...

An Interview with Nina Munteanu: Revisiting “Through the Portal Anthology” Ten months ago, on my Dec 2, 2024 post, I interviewed Nina Munteanu on the anthology she and co-editor Lynn Hutchinson Lee wo...

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 4d

Popular ecofiction this month ... #ecofiction #books #novels #bookstoread

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 4d

My short story "The Way of Water" will appear in the German speculative magazine NOVA Issue #37 this fall. I just LOVE the cover! #writing #shortstories #Nova #cover

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 4d

Embracing change: Living and Writing from the Ecotone #onwriting #ecotone #change #WritingCommunity www.realityskimming.com/post/embraci...

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 5d

Same day, same forest, found some lovely Licorice Fern on a Big Leaf Maple tree ... #forest #BigLeafMaple #ferns #LicoriceFern #forestwalks

Writer Nina Munteanu on Embracing Change in the Ecotone - Reality Skimming

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 5d

Found this sweet little Hygrocybe miniata growing among three mosses on a cedar stump in my local forest today... They are only about 2 cm tall ... #mushrooms #fungi #Hygrocybe #waxcaps

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 6d

Embracing Change in the Ecotone... #onwriting #change #ecotone #WritingCommunity www.realityskimming.com/post/embraci...

Writer Nina Munteanu describes the evolution of her work through ecological parallel of the verge, a place of great transition.

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 7d

Today, I found this sweet tiny white mushroom growing among various ferns on a big leaf maple tree ... Does anyone have any idea what it is? #mushrooms #fungi #bigleafmaple #nature #photography

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 7d

Found these gorgeous Scarlet Fairy Helmets in a buckthorn thicket by a river ... Aren't they stunning? #mushrooms #fungi #mycena #NaturePhotography

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 7d

The Witch's Hat and other Fungi Tales... #fungi #mushrooms #nature #photography ninamunteanu.me/2021/12/12/7...

The Witch’s Hat and Other Fungi Tales

Witch’s Hat (Hygrocybe conica) by cedar tree, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) In my recent wanderings in the small cedar forest by the river near my house, I chanced upon a community of emerging …

Finding Magic in Mushrooms in Early Fall—Foraging

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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 7d

Finding magic in mushrooms in early fall ... #foraging #mushrooms #fungi #Nature #photography themeaningofwater.com/2020/10/18/f...

Scarlet Fairy’s Helmet (Mycena strobillinoides) in cedar forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) As the nights grow still and crisp with the north wind, I sense the change in the air. Restless an…

Tricholoma terreum: When a Mushroom Looks Like a Rock…

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 7d

When a mushroom looks like a rock ... #mushrooms #fungi #Tricholoma #nature #photography themeaningofwater.com/2023/12/17/t...

A pair of Tricholoma terreum mushrooms amid the litter of a pine cedar forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) My daily walks often take me through the forests on a small path along the river. The narr…

The Use of Character-Coupling in Eco-Literature to Give Voice to the Other, Part 1: Introduction

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d

Using character-coupling to give voice to 'the other' in #ecofiction ... #onwriting #WritingCommunity #theother #writingfiction ninamunteanu.me/2024/02/18/t...

A trickster wind stirs up clouds of drifting snow, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Not long ago, I was driving through a short tunnel that I typically take to go to work and, glanc…

“Warrior”, A Spirit Bear in the Great Bear Rainforest

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d

"Warrior", a Spirit Bear in the Great Bear Rainforest... her story... #SpiritBear #bears #GreatBearRainforest #rainforests themeaningofwater.com/2020/01/18/w...

Her name was Warrior, for the scar gauged across her nose, just below her left eye. The close-up of this female Spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) was captured by photographer Michelle Valberg…

Moss—A Study of ‘Nina’s Boulder’ in Jackson Creek Old-Growth Forest

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 12d

Check out Nina's Boulder for wonderful mosses ... #moss #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2024/06/16/m...

“[Mosses] are the most overlooked plants on the planet. But they’re gifts, too. They provide us with another model of how we might live.”Robin Wall Kimmerer Upper slope of creek watershed dominated…

A Diversity of Life on Five Ancient Maple Trees—A Tree Study

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 12d

A studyof what grows on five old maples in an Ontario old-growth forest... #lichens #mosses #liverworts #oldgrowth #forest #Ontario themeaningofwater.com/2025/06/15/a...

Large sugar maples amid old-growth hemlocks on the drumlin slope, Mark S. Burnham Forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . The Mark S. Burnham Provincial Park is one of few remaining and well-preserve…

Review of “A Diary in the Age of Water”: Women, Water, Numinosity, and the Transformation of the World

Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 13d

Review of "A Diary in the Age of Water" ... #bookreview #books #ecofiction ninamunteanu.me/2025/03/16/r...

“It is a novel to learn from, and it is a novel to take forward into life as inspirational guide. Each of us is called upon to examine, not only our relationship with water, but with all Earth gift…