Hummingbird Salamander
2021 novel by Jeff VanderMeer
Hummingbird Salamander is a 2021 novel by American author Jeff VanderMeer. It is set in a near-future dystopia affected by climate change, and narrated by a suburban housewife who is drawn into a mystery incited by her receipt of a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species.[1]
Reception
Writer Noah Berlatsky said the novel "features ecoterrorists, evil corporations, a race to defuse doomsday weapons, gunfire, fisticuffs, action sequences and hair-raising escapes... VanderMeer introduces all this genre fun mostly to subvert it".[1] Writing in the New York Times, author Helen Phillips called the novel "climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping".[2]
References
- ^ a b Berlatsky, Noah (2021-03-30). "Review: Climate collapse comes for the spy thriller in Jeff VanderMeer's sly genre game". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2023-08-31. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ Phillips, Helen (2021-04-06). "Jeff VanderMeer Wants to Show You How the World Ends". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
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