![]() ![]() No, not Salander, though Jane has a number of things in common with Stieg Larsson’s heroine: She can pound most dudes into tapioca, and she’s pretty handy with a gun and a computer, too. That’s true of this story as well, which opens with a tantalizing puzzle: A mysterious woman named Silvina has left behind a coded message for a security expert who suggests that we call her “Jane Smith” and who adds that she is “here to show you how the world ends.” That clue involves a taxidermic hummingbird, the last of its kind, and, following a few ellipses in the accompanying note, the word salamander. The natural world always takes a front-row seat in a VanderMeer yarn-see, for example, Borne (2017) or Dead Astronauts (2019)-even if it’s a natural world that has suffered at human hands and by human tinkering. ![]() ![]() The prolific VanderMeer moves from fantasy into noir territory with this version of an eco-thriller. ![]()
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