A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.
Arboreality is a novella expansion of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning short story …
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.
Arboreality is a novella expansion of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning short story “An Important Failure.”
126 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 28. September 2022 von Stelliform Press veröffentlicht.
Arboreality is a collection of loosely connected stories set on an ecologically devastated near future Vancouver Island. Campbell offers up the full effects of human greed and short-sightedness but also human and natural resilience. A quick read. Recommended.
