FPTV: Jeff VanderMeer on climate change, cinematic speculative fiction and Hummingbird Salamander!

Jeff VanderMeer joins Laura Dodd & Andrew Sumner at Forbidden Planet TV to tell them all about his latest wild-ride speculative thriller: Hummingbird Salamander!

Jane Smith - a software manager in her late forties who lives in the Pacific Northwest - receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit inside. In the storage unit is a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. Along with a list of five more animals, signed “Love, Silvina.” The hummingbird and salamander turn out to be among the most endangered species in the world, the taxidermy commissioned by a notorious wildlife trafficking criminal. The message is from the daughter of an Argentine industrialist who has recently died, someone who became radicalised and is thought of in some quarters as an eco-terrorist. Jane does not know Silvina and has never met her, but just by taking the items from the storage unit has set events into play over which she has no control.....

You can pre-order Hummingbird Salamander below.