Hummingbird Salamander: A Novel [Paperback]

From the author ofAnnihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.

Jane Smithnot her real namereceives an envelope that contains a note from a woman she doesnt know and a key to an anonymous storage unit. The key leads her to a pair of taxidermied animals, a hummingbird and a salamander, which turn out to be two of the most endangered creatures on earth.

Jane has set in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. She is being followed, her home surveilled, her family in peril. The author of the mysterious noteJanes only real leadis already dead. She was, Jane learns, a reputed ecoterrorist. What did she want with Jane?

Profiteering wildlife smugglers; an amoral energy company; an extremists apocalyptic vision. The threats come from all around, and time is running outfor Jane and possibly for the world.

Hummingbird Salamanderis Jeff VanderMeer at his dazzling, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions into a tightly plotted tale of the fight to survive.

Jeff VanderMeeris the author ofHummingbird Salamander, theBornenovels (Borne,The Strange Bird, andDead Astronauts), andThe Southern Reach Trilogy(Annihilation,Authority, andAcceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change as well as urban rewilding. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

This is climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping.
Helen Phillips,The New York Times

Now from this daring and ever-shifting author comesHummingbird Salamander, a volume more naturalistic, more like a traditional thriller than its predecessors, but one that also features hooks into the literary novel of paranoid col³Ò