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What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker

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A bold and experimental novella-in-fairytale-retellings coming September 2025.

Kaleidoscopic and fearlessly innovative, What a Fish Looks Like shatters the boundaries of climate fiction. It’s a fierce, tender testament to the power of love, memory, and chosen community in the face of collapse. The book invents a new language for what it feels like to grieve a dying world, and to imagine something radically different in its place.
Kate Folk, author of Sky Daddy and Out There

From the dedication to the last word, this book is unexpected and brilliant a deeply queer and riotously joyful lament for our world, so wildly creative, original, and unrestrained it makes the care and artistry with which it’s been weaved seem effortless. What a Fish Looks Like is one of the most special and memorable short story collections I have ever read.”
Natalia Theodoridou, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author of Sour Cherry

“Beker’s writing … has a beautifully caustic energy to it, a rapid-fire delivery that brings a hint of humor with an edge. We can never get enough.”
The Racket

“Delightfully odd.”
Locus Magazine

Customers outside of CA/US: due to supply chain issues, worldwide shipping of print books is currently slow and expensive. We recommend shopping with your local indie bookstore. If you do order a print book from us, it will be shipped from the closest print facility to you and will therefore be printed on standard paper and will not include the goodies we send with CA/US orders.

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About the Book

What are the stories we need to survive?

In ten days, the last spaceship is leaving for a new planet. Some of us will stay on Earth. How do we decide?

#TeamEarth. Once upon a time, the oceans were full of fish and the forests dark with brambles. Seb read about it in a book of fairy tales, and memory means hope.

#TeamShip. Adaptation means knowing when to walk away. Jay is ready. So their ex, Seb, shows up on the dance floor, T-minus-10. What’s the harm in one last dance?

What if the stories themselves are evolving?

Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, What A Fish Looks Like gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change, wondering who is going to love us when there are not, in fact, plenty of fish in the sea.

And now this book belongs to you.

About the Author

Syr Hayati Bekeris a queer nonbinary white Turkish-American writer, immersive experience creator, horror nerd, and art top in search of the queer love language of climate change. They are a graduate of Clarion West, SFSU’s MFA, Lambda’s Emerging Writers Fellowship, and a Tin House scholarship recipient, as well as residencies from OSU and Writing X Writers. Their work appears in Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fairy Tale Review, Spunk, Foglifter, Gigantic Sequins, Home is Where you Queer Your Heart (Foglifter Press, 2021) and more.

Additional information

Book Format

Print, EPUB, MOBI, PDF

Page count

220

ISBN

9781738316557 (trade), 9781738316564 (ebook)

Publication Date

September 4 2025

Genre

science fiction, climate fiction, LGBTQ, literary fiction, novella

Subject

environmental fiction, ecofiction, climate change, climate fiction, clifi, LGBTQ communities, gender identity, space travel

Cover Art and Design

Carly AF

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