Hummingbird Salamander

Hummingbird Salamander

Author	Jeff VanderMeer
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, Spy fiction
Published	2021 (Macmillan Publishers)
Publication place	United States
ISBN	1250829771

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 corporate security consultant, "Jane Smith," 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] In a review published by the New York Times, author Helen Phillips called the novel "climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping". ^[2]

References

1. Berlatsky, Noah (March 30, 2021). "Review: Climate collapse comes for the spy thriller in Jeff VanderMeer's sly genre game". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 31, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
2. Phillips, Helen (April 6, 2021). "Jeff VanderMeer Wants to Show You How the World Ends". New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2023.