Fauna, Christiane Vadnais
Fauna, Christiane Vadnais
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Fauna

Author: Christiane Vadnais

Narrator: Sabryn Rock

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 05/15/2021


Synopsis

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species — humans included — are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own. Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by P.E. on February 01, 2025

Banshees 'On raconte que dans les bois de Shivering Heights, les espèces se raréfient, que certaines meurent alors que d'autres s'adaptent à une vitesse accélérée. On n'est plus tout à fait sûr de comprendre les ruses des renards et les regards suspicieux de corbeaux, il semble que des connivences si......more

Goodreads review by Pierre-Alexandre on January 07, 2019

Il est difficile de ne pas ressentir l'humidité qui suinte des pages suffocantes de ce récit, dans lequel la nature reprend sa place suite aux abus des humains. Une fantaisie dystopique profondément réjouissante, qui regorge d'images troublantes, et un heureux parti-pris de l'auteure, qui met le lec......more

Goodreads review by Stitching on July 18, 2024

Eco-horror with a Lovecraftian vibe told in more or less loosely connected stories. I liked the concept but oddly enough I wish the prose had been a little more common as it is it exists somewhere between familiar and literary in a way that felt kind of dated to me, but maybe it's just because the a......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on March 17, 2023

This is a weird eco-fiction debut novella from Quebec. I read it as a part of the monthly reading for March 2023 at Speculative Fiction in Translation group. There is a new, developing sub-genre of speculative fiction, namely eco-fiction. It is often not a classic science fiction in terms of its appr......more

Goodreads review by Christine on January 22, 2019

Wow. Juste WoW. J’hésite à mettre des mots tellement j’ai peur de ne pas rendre justice à ce livre magistral. Tout est parfait. Bien écrit, intriguant, glauque, inquiétant, magnifique.......more