| Hummingbird Salamander | |
| Author: | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Science fiction, Spy fiction |
| Published: | 2021 (Macmillan Publishers) |
| 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]
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". Writing in the New York Times, author Helen Phillips called the novel "climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping".[2]