Earth 7
[A] stellar and sweeping science fiction novel that is part cosmic comedy and part dirge to our dying world ... Unferth has honed a narrative voice that falls somewhere between mystic, stand-up comedian and fairy-tale teller. There are frequent funny asides and philosophical musings ... Unferth writes with haunting beauty about our reckless destruction ... A celebration as much as a lamentation
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Unferth is smart to take the world’s demise for granted. The choice allows her to shine as a literary portraitist ... Arguably, there’s a conflict between Unferth’s subject—space and time on a cosmic scale, unending—and the form of the novel, which ought to end around the time its tensions break or its protagonist dies. Unferth lingers in the world she’s built, reluctant to let it go, ready as the reader may be to say goodbye ... Earth 7, in its speculations about the environment and the cosmos, veers into science fiction. But Unferth goes beyond the tropes and conventions of the genre ... Her political and philosophical reflections on the Anthropocene and the entire universe push past the usual limits of the novel, for better or worse ... That the narrative itself resists such finality can be read as an offering of hope—or as a warning.
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This is a truly glorious novel rife with the grief and loss of climate disaster and a deep love for humanity and our planet.
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