![]() ![]() ![]() Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina’s footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out-for her and possibly for the world. Jeff VanderMeers ecological thriller takes us into a reality where the possibility of Homo sapiens becoming extinct. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. The narrator describes what the audience needs to know to understand the setting and nothing more. ![]() It greets readers with a taxidermied animal and dives into ecological issues often regarded as the problems of the future. ![]() Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. Hummingbird Salamander, a spy fiction written by Jeff VanderMeer, was published April 6. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Security consultant Jane Smith receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied. From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. ![]()
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