
Hummingbird Salamander
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/06/2021
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Literary Fiction

Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/06/2021
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Literary Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Dead Astronauts, Borne, and the Southern Reach trilogy, the first volume of which, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. VanderMeer speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change as well as urban rewilding. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, on the edge of a ravine, with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, and their cat, Neo.
Lisa Flanagan is a classically trained soprano, comedian, voice-over artist, and Earphones Award–winning narrator.
Cryptic, claustrophobic, complex, confusing! So many C words can be used to define this rich, fresh, stunning mysterious story dances between dystopian sci-fi, thought provoking suspense and ecological mystery! We patiently learn to walk in the dark as the author gives us small hints about the MC’s......more
I hate writing reviews for books I didn't like. Unfortunately this is one of those. And to think it's a Jeff VanderMeer book! But alas I have to be honest, the reality is I was psyched for Hummingbird Salamander and ended up massively disappointed. Here's why: Genre Confusion Part of the problem with......more
“This is climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping.” New York Times
"You won’t look up even once while you’re reading.” Washington Post
“This madcap mystery offers plenty of charms, as well as something much darker.” New York Times Book Review
“Like your favorite Hollywood blockbuster…ecoterrorists, evil corporations, a race to defuse doomsday weapons, gunfire, fisticuffs, action sequences, and hair-raising escapes.” Los Angeles Times
“Celebrates nature while inviting us to contemplate the effects of contamination, pandemics, and other crises and how none of them make us ‘even blink anymore.’” San Francisco Chronicle
“Will leave you in the dark for as long as it possibly can, before divulging it all in a shocking reveal.” Mystery Suspense magazine
“An eco-thriller…and an entertaining whirlwind.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“VanderMeer knocks his conspiracy thriller out of the park.” Booklist (starred review)
“[A] mix of thriller and biotech speculative fiction…Exquisite prose pulls the reader deep into the labyrinthine plot.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A taut, breakneck thriller.” AV Club