Violet Lichen Books is thrilled to reveal the cover for the upcoming ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction.
This stunning artwork was created by the wildly talented Marcela Bolívar, whose ethereal and surreal art blends the botanical weird and the hypnotizing mystery of nature in a way we knew was just perfect for this anthology. The spirit of the natural world lives and breathes through her artwork.
The cover was designed by our favorite graphic-design magician Mikio Murakami of Silent Q Design, whose incredible work always lifts our book covers to another level.
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Join us in celebrating ecofiction and the authors writing in this vibrant and eclectic genre.
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ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
Book Release: November 18th, 2025!
A must-read annual showcase of the best nature-based science fiction and fantasy short stories published around the world every year.
Featuring works by rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity's deep relationships with other species and of our communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world—all told through the lens of the fantastic.
Speculative ecofiction has a long history, but ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction is the first-ever anthology series to showcase the best of the genre published each year.
Ranging from literary science fiction and magical realism to dark fantasy and climate fiction, the stories form a unique snapshot of how some of the most brilliant and imaginative authors writing today are engaging with this extraordinary time in Earth's natural history.
The inaugural edition, selected by award-winning editor and anthologist Marissa van Uden and a team of passionate ecofiction judges, features works by Eugen Bacon, E. Catherine Tobler, Hiron Ennes, K-Ming Chang, Kay Vaindal, Kelsea Yu, Renan Bernardo, and many other brilliant authors.
ECO24 Table of Contents
"In the Field"
Shelly Jones (The Future Fire Magazine)
"The Water Runner"
Eugen Bacon (Ecoceanic: Southern Flows, edited by Tarun K Saint and Francesco Verso)
"Ama's Jungle"
K-Ming Chang (Orion Magazine)
"A Seder in Siberia"
Louis Evans (Grist Magazine)
"Love, Scotland"
E.M. Faulds (Nova Scotia: New Speculative Fiction from Scotland Vol 2, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson)
"Our Best Selves"
Hiron Ennes (Weird Horror Magazine)
"The Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl"
Nika Murphy (Apex Magazine)
"Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'"
F.E. Choe (Clarkesworld Magazine)
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet"
Adeline Wong (Strange Horizons)
"The Last Library"
Joshua Jones Lofflin (Astrolabe)
"Bodies"
Cat McMahan (Clarkesworld Magazine)
"Pig House"
Kay Vaindal (Seize the Press Magazine)
"The Plasticity of Being"
Renan Bernardo (Reactor Magazine)
"Batter and Pearl"
Steph Kwiatkowski (Diabolical Plots)
"Parasite's Grief"
Katharine Tyndall (Fatal Flaw)
"Skittering Within"
Kelsea Yu (Apparition Lit)
"To Drive the Cold Winter Away"
E. Catherine Tobler (Strange Horizons)
"One with the Ground"
Guillermo G. Mendoza (Reckoning 8, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM)
"We the People Excluding I"
Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Lightspeed Magazine)
"Father Time Dares You to Dream"
Trae Hawkins (New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention, edited by Chris Campbell)
"Birdseed"
Matthew Freeman (Through the Portal: Tales From a Hopeful Dystopia, edited by Lynn Hutchinson Lee and Nina Munteau, published by Exile Editions)
"The Colonists"
Jennifer Hudak (Trollbreath Magazine)
"Mangrove Daughter"
E.M. Linden (Kaleidotrope)
