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Fauna
Fauna | Christiane Vadnais
4 posts | 6 read | 4 to read
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.
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Robotswithpersonality
Fauna | Christiane Vadnais
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Panpan

There's a point at which evocative surrealism eliminates sense-making and this is on the wrong side of that borderline. Also, gross and disturbing.
Would not advise eating while reading. 1/3

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 There were moments clearly outlining one version of our world a few years in the future where climate change has made things worse for everybody, and humanity's unchecked negative actions to continue to deteriorate the environment, but overall the novella is too disjointed. It doesn't come across as a teaching moment, just a dystopian backdrop. 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 On the side of the yikes: it's never explicitly conveyed as ED, but there are MANY moments showcasing different behaviours that mimick disordered eating and it's effects, those currently struggling or recovering, be aware.

⚠️SA, animal death, abuse, body horror
4mo
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Mogoeg
Fauna | Christiane Vadnais
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Mehso-so

Hmm, well. This was very... squelchy. And squicky.

I enjoy experimental fiction, & I enjoy climate fiction, & I get what she's going for here, but it didn't really do it for me. Maybe because biology scifi/body horror stuff is not my cup of tea (tho you DEF shouldn't drink tea made w/ the water in Shivering Heights!).

It wasn't boring though. I'll give it that (& it's pretty short too, so if you think it might be your thing, give it a whirl).

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amyf0x
Fauna | Christiane Vadnais
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Pickpick

Vadnais describes the town of Shivering Heights in lush, dense prose, mirroring the wildness that is quickly overtaking its people.

Read January 11-13
Rated 4/5 ⭐️
Book 4/60

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Bookalong
Fauna | Christiane Vadnais
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Pickpick

This eerie, surreal, atmospheric read takes place in the near future where climate change has dismantled the world as we know it. The story mostly occurs in Shivering Heights where weather is extreme.....terrential rains, fog, toxic skies, and the inhabitants, humans included are changing, and evolving in remarkable ways.These interconnected stories are mezmorizing and prophetic. Reads like a strange nightmare.....think environmental horror.

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