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Cover of Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY, which is a green book with the cover torn half off and on fire, revealing water damaged botanical drawings of a golden arbutus tree.
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell Book cover with Ursula K Le Guin Prize winner medallion and the Philip K. Dick Award Finalist medallion.

Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

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The 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction winner and a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist, Arboreality is a novella expansion of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning short story “An Important Failure.”

“Campbell doesn’t shy away from the worst possibilities of apocalyptic ecological collapse … but offers a surprisingly hopeful and joyful vision of the future … This compassionate cli-fi mosaic is sure to please genre fans.”
— Publishers Weekly

“I have yearned for a story like this one — ordinary people finding slow, small ways to repair not the whole damaged world, but their own small corner of it … I couldn’t love it more.”
— Molly Gloss, author of Wild Life and The Hearts of Horses

“You’ll see the world differently after reading this slender book—I dare you to come away unchanged.”
— Amanda Leduc, author of The Centaur’s Wife

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.

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About the Book

An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story, Arboreality is also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change. A novella-length expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner.

About the Author

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest” and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for “An Important Failure.” NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013.

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Book Format

Special Edition Print, First Print, EPUB, MOBI, PDF
Page count

117 pp.
ISBN

9781777682323 (trade), 9781777682330 (ebook)
Publication Date

September 29, 2022
Genre

science fiction, literary fiction, climate fiction, novella
Subject

climate change, British Columbia, wildfire, flood, trees
Cover Art & Design

Rachel Yu Lobbenberg
Awards

2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Winner, Philip K. Dick Award Finalist, Utopia Award Finalist, Aurora Award Winner for Best Cover Art (to cover artist Rachel Lobbenberg)

1 review for Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

  1. Patrick Fassnacht –

    beautiful. refreshingly powerful for a genre becoming overwrought.
    this is no boilerplate look into characters struggling through the fall of Earth. eloquent and artistically done, this short snapshot-like pieces and moments of lives through the devolution.. emotionally weaving through the generations of downward spiral… until it isn’t. until the seeds, thoughts, and everyday living begin to rebound forward. amazing how much is said, done, posited, felt, pushed through, and reflected on in this one.
    so glad to have found it– and met the writer in a book fair. not expecting much more than ‘another environ-scifi story,’ i was so deeply surprised. and impacted.

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