Nina Munteanu

“Gaia’s Revolution”, Life After Capitalism: The Promise & Spectre of Deep Ecology—Part 1 Twin brothers—a brilliant scientist and a gifted engineer—escape the growing racial violence of Berlin, to ‘peaceful’ Canada in a rivalry to control the evolution of the human race. . My novel Gaia…

Gaia's Revolution ... life after capitalism: the promise and spectre of deep ecology ... #books #ecology #capitalism ninamunteanu.me/2026/03/08/g...

Walking the Old-Growth Parks in Vancouver Area Rice Lake old growth forest, Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, BC (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Whenever I’m visiting Vancouver (which is most summers), I like to explore several new des…

Walking the old-growth forests in Vancouver area #Vancouver #parks #oldgrowth #forests #BritishColumbia #Nature #beauty ... themeaningofwater.com/2024/10/20/w...

The hyperobject of sustainability ... #sustainability #hyperobject #fractal #stakeholdercapitalism #capitalism #ESG www.realityskimming.com/post/the-hyp...

“Water wants to flow. It doesn’t like to be restricted. If confined in a ravine, it speeds up and cuts a channel, eroding the hardest material and polishing a path that uniquely suits it. Water is selfish. It is always moving, even when it isn’t.”--Lynna Dresden "A Diary in the Age of Water"

#ecofiction #clifi #sciencefiction #Canadian #books

My Three Favourite Reads in 2025 As with previous years, Shepherd invited me to post my three favourite reads of 2025. These aren’t necessarily books published in 2025; just books I read in that year. Each time I do this, I find t…

My three favourite reads in 2025: books that touch on humanity’s understanding—or lack of understanding—of our fragile environment and the importance of humility and collaboration to our survival on a changing planet. #books #favouritebooks #BooksWorthReading ninamunteanu.me/2026/01/25/m...

#Nature #decay #decomposition #naturecycles #ecology #life #death #NaturePhotography

“Nothing in nature stays the same. Or if it does, it’s because change has brought it back to what it once was.”--Lynna Dresden "A Diary in the Age of Water #ecofiction #books #water #dystopia

‘The Way of Water’ Translated into German and Published in Nova Magazin für spekulative Literatur . My short story “The Way of Water” was recently translated into German (“Der Weg des Wassers”) and published in Nova 37. The issue has illustrations for each story and a beautiful cover. When I go…

My short story "The Way of Water" now in the German magazine Nova ... #shortstories #ecofiction #water ninamunteanu.me/2026/03/01/t...

A Diatom Spring… Spring periphyton settling on the stream bottom of Thompson Creek, looking downstream to where the creek empties into the Otonabee River, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) It was a warmish day in early s…

Diatom spring ... #diatoms #spring #ecology #aquaticecology #nature #streams themeaningofwater.com/2023/04/16/a...

When the Meridional Overturning Circulation Shuts Down Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) (drawing by Nina Munteanu, from “A Diary in the Age of Water” Inanna Publications, 2020) March 6, 2055 Before leaving for the universi…

When the Meridional Overturning Circulation shuts down ... #AMOC #oceancirculation ninamunteanu.me/2022/08/07/w...

#Nature #science #decomposition #lifecycle #ecology #life #NaturePhotography

“A Diary in the Age of Water” Required Reading at Memorial University “A Diary in the Age of Water” at the Memorial University Bookstore Instructor Keif Godbout-Kinney has made my eco-fiction novel A Diary in the Age of Water required reading in their cou…

My #Femlit #ecofiction novel "A Diary in the Age of Water" is required reading at the Memorial University ... #bookstoread #books #university ninamunteanu.me/2025/05/25/a...

The Hyperobject of Sustainability Ecologist and SF author Nina Munteanu looks at theories and definitions of sustainability from hyperobject to ESG.

The hyperobject of sustainability ... #sustainability #hyperobject #fractal #stakeholdercapitalism #capitalism #ESG www.realityskimming.com/post/the-hyp...

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

“[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 #mosses #environment #ecology #survival themeaningofwater.com/2024/06/16/m...

Two brothers. One planet. No innocent choices. "Gaia's Revolution" coming March 10 in ebook and print...

‘The Way of Water’ Translated into German and Published in Nova Magazin für spekulative Literatur . My short story “The Way of Water” was recently translated into German (“Der Weg des Wassers”) and published in Nova 37. The issue has illustrations for each story and a beautiful cover. When I go…

My short story "The Way of Water" appears in Nova, translated into German ... #shortstories #sciencefiction #ecofiction #Nova #water ninamunteanu.me/2026/03/01/t...

Jelly Rot / Trembling Crust Fungus (Phlebia tremellosa / Merulius tremellosus) Jelly Rot Fungus on a maple log, Campbell Valley Park, BC (photo by Nina Munteanu) . On a recent walk through the Campbell Valley Park forest, I encountered a strange fungus growing on a mossy Big …

A fungus called Jelly Rot just has to have personality! #fungi #jellyrot themeaningofwater.com/2026/03/01/j...

Science Fiction Asks: Are We Worth Saving? Science fiction, which Ted Gioia of The San Francisco Chronicle calls “conceptual fiction” explores the interaction of humanity with some larger phenomenon that involves science. SF writer Robert J…

Science Fiction asks: Are we worth saving? #sciencefiction #scifi #stories #humanity ninamunteanu.me/2018/05/14/s...

Eight Ways to Move From Prosaic to Spectacular What makes some writing stunning and other writing lackluster? Mostly, it’s the language—the words—you use. And, it isn’t just what words you use; it’s how you use them. Here are a few things you n…

8 ways to move from prosaic to spectacular #onwriting #writingtips #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2016/07/27/m...

Revising: Improve Your Story Using Paragraphs Enhance Reader Ease by Addressing Paragraphs in Your Revision. Ever so often I get a story from a student that reads like one long run-on sentence… A James Joyce special of stream-of-conscious… In …

Using paragraphs to improve your writing ... #onwriting ninamunteanu.me/2015/12/08/r...

The Semi-Colon is Dead; Long Live the Semicolon Ice forms on the shores of Jackson Creek in early winter, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) I’ve been a coaching writers for over two decades. I help fiction and non-fiction writers get published. I teac…

The semi-colon is dead; long live the semicolon ... #semicolon #punctuation #onwriting ninamunteanu.me/2021/02/28/t...

Movie Review & TV Series Review: The Paradoxes of Aeon Flux When I was first tantalized by the high-speed head-smashing trailor for the Paramount motion picture, Aeon Flux, directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) and released in late 2005 (now on DVD), I was b…

Movie review: Aeon Flux ... #filmreview #moviereview #reviews ninamunteanu.me/2024/10/13/m...

When a Leaf Turns into a Skeleton… Litter of decomposing dead leaves, Trent Nature Sanctuary, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) On one of my walks in the damp forest of early winter, I noticed several leaves that had turned lacy, revealin…

When a leaf turns into a skeleton #nature #beauty #decay #lifecycles #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2026/02/22/w...

What Genre Is My Story? Is it Eco-Fiction or Something Else? Illustration depicting Ray Bradbury’s ‘Rocket Summer’ in The Martian Chronicles (image from The Black Cat Moan) . Twenty years ago, when I started seriously publishing short stories and novel…

What genre is my story? #ecofiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #onwriting #novels #books ninamunteanu.me/2025/08/24/w...

“Gaia’s Revolution”, Life after Capitalism: A Canadian Story… A fanatical deep-ecologist, Monica Schlange, harnesses two orphans in her bid to reshape humanity and its place in the natural world. . My upcoming book Gaia’s Revolution (Book 1 of …

Eric on revolution to his twin brother: "We must be unruly like climate. We must be relentless like climate. We must ride that wave before we can become the wave...and then by being the wave, we change the world."--Gaia's Revolution, coming out March 10... ninamunteanu.me/2026/02/22/g...

Gaia's Revolution by Nina Munteanu — two brothers, one dying planet, no innocent choices... Coming out March 10 in print and ebook formats ... #ecofiction #clifi #sciencefiction #Canadian #books

#bookstoread #water #books #list #ecofiction #clifi

Climate Cultures Magazine Lists Nina Munteanu’s “A Diary in the Age of Water” Among Eight Eco-Fiction Novels to Read Writer and curator Mary Woodbury shares eight novels about water where fact and fiction mingle, tried by imagination, to reveal important truths about our shifting relationships with this vital and…

Nina Munteanu's "A Diary in the Age of Water" among 8 #ecofiction novels you need to read--Climate Cultures Magazine ninamunteanu.me/2022/09/18/c...

Ironic Tragedy of Forever Chemicals & Growing Infertility: Are We Solving Our Own Population Explosion Through Toxicity? Screenshot In the passage below of my eco-fiction dystopian novel A Diary in the Age of Water, the year is 2065 and the diarist Lynna (a limnologist at the University of Toronto) reflects on the st…

The tragic irony of #foreverchemicals ... #population #toxicchemicals #infertility ninamunteanu.me/2024/10/06/i...