E. J. Swift schrijft speculatieve fictie die zich vaak verdiept in de gevolgen van klimaatverandering en de transformerende krachten die dit ontketent. Haar werk onderzoekt hoe samenlevingen zich zouden kunnen aanpassen aan een radicaal veranderde wereld en welke nieuwe vormen van bestaan en interactie zouden kunnen ontstaan. Swift staat bekend om haar doordachte world-building en haar onderzoek naar menselijke veerkracht in het aangezicht van milieuveranderingen. Haar korte verhalen zijn erkend voor hun originaliteit en scherpe inzichten in mogelijke toekomsten.
Past, present and future collide in E. J. Swift's The Coral Bones, as three women battle against ecological disaster in three different eras. A powerful elegy to the disappearing world of Australia's unique and fascinating ecosystem, a novel of intertwining stories for the climate change era - and a vision of a more hopeful future.
The Time Machine meet Midnight In Paris Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. As a bartender at the notorious Millie’s, located next to the Moulin Rouge, she meets Gabriela, who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find a new family. But Millie’s is not all that it seems: a bird warns Hallie to get her feathers in order, a mysterious woman shows up claiming to be a chronometrist, and Gabriela is inexplicably unable to leave Paris. Then Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns as she navigates time-faring through the city’s turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.