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Earth 7
An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet
Well, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places.
Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love—or any love—seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts—and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?
By the end of Unferth’s wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has traveled to the very edges of the cosmos as a “soul globule” and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade. A slim book tackling big questions (is all matter conscious? will we tech ourselves into salvation, or out of existence?), Earth 7 is a poignant inquiry into death, mourning, and indefatigable life, the most exhilarating work to date by one of our most original and beloved writers.
Well, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places.
Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love—or any love—seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts—and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?
By the end of Unferth’s wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has traveled to the very edges of the cosmos as a “soul globule” and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade. A slim book tackling big questions (is all matter conscious? will we tech ourselves into salvation, or out of existence?), Earth 7 is a poignant inquiry into death, mourning, and indefatigable life, the most exhilarating work to date by one of our most original and beloved writers.
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First published June 9, 2026
About the author
Deb Olin Unferth
27 books274 followersDeb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 and the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, NOON, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Creative Capital grant, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also runs the Pen City Writers, a creative writing program at a penitentiary in southern Texas.
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July 25, 2026
What a gorgeous work of art. Just a beautifully told story about love and home.
September 10, 2026
Combining LeGuin and Emily St. John Mandel and Under The Eye of the Big Bird, this is the kind of big ideas post-human novel I love
How should one live, in the end? Leaning over the ledge into the unknown? Or standing at the edge and reaching back toward home?
I tend to enjoy literary sci-fi that asks the big questions of what happens to love, sexuality, memory, individuality, mortality, family, consciousness, work, art and civilisation when the assumptions underlying those concepts disappear?
Earth 7 features an earth depopulated and a girl growing up isolated with her mom. Escape from the planet takes on many forms, ranging from silicon minds, religious cults, Mars to cybernetic implants to stretch longevity and a fusion with the spirit of the planet/universe. Between all these concepts there is a love story and a quest and accepting the limitations of one parents. Very well done in my view, how it packs a lot of ideas in a short novel without losing sight of humanity and characters who are convincing.
Quotes:
The floor stopped existing as a play space. Rosemary considered how the child would never see the floor in the same way again. The floor would mostly disappear to her. Rosemary integrated this into her understanding of space and matter. The world vanishes piece by piece, she thought. Either because it is too much in view or not enough.
The child hated “living in a vat at the bottom of the fucking ocean!” and said, “Fish are lucky to be extinct!”
Why couldn’t she stare at her screen like a normal person, instead of at nothing at all?
She stared out and understood. Nobody was waiting for any fucking fish. A new beginning was not on the way. The end had come and gone. She was part of the rubble.
Curiosity is the start of personhood
Melanie had never wanted to live forever. She’d never particularly wanted to live at all. But here she was.
The sadness didn’t leave but it settled into her and she was calm.
She didn’t decide to stay, but she kept staying.
A thought at the end: Earth itself would preserve what was best for it and leave behind what was worst. Whatever Earth came up with next would be perfect.
Words are just a record of our ongoing bewilderment about what’s around us
How should one live, in the end? Leaning over the ledge into the unknown? Or standing at the edge and reaching back toward home?
I tend to enjoy literary sci-fi that asks the big questions of what happens to love, sexuality, memory, individuality, mortality, family, consciousness, work, art and civilisation when the assumptions underlying those concepts disappear?
Earth 7 features an earth depopulated and a girl growing up isolated with her mom. Escape from the planet takes on many forms, ranging from silicon minds, religious cults, Mars to cybernetic implants to stretch longevity and a fusion with the spirit of the planet/universe. Between all these concepts there is a love story and a quest and accepting the limitations of one parents. Very well done in my view, how it packs a lot of ideas in a short novel without losing sight of humanity and characters who are convincing.
Quotes:
The floor stopped existing as a play space. Rosemary considered how the child would never see the floor in the same way again. The floor would mostly disappear to her. Rosemary integrated this into her understanding of space and matter. The world vanishes piece by piece, she thought. Either because it is too much in view or not enough.
The child hated “living in a vat at the bottom of the fucking ocean!” and said, “Fish are lucky to be extinct!”
Why couldn’t she stare at her screen like a normal person, instead of at nothing at all?
She stared out and understood. Nobody was waiting for any fucking fish. A new beginning was not on the way. The end had come and gone. She was part of the rubble.
Curiosity is the start of personhood
Melanie had never wanted to live forever. She’d never particularly wanted to live at all. But here she was.
The sadness didn’t leave but it settled into her and she was calm.
She didn’t decide to stay, but she kept staying.
A thought at the end: Earth itself would preserve what was best for it and leave behind what was worst. Whatever Earth came up with next would be perfect.
Words are just a record of our ongoing bewilderment about what’s around us
February 13, 2026
A deeply human speculative fiction novel about the planet we live on and the vastness of space. The is smart science fiction for fans of Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler and Simon Jimenez. Uplifting and devastating in equal measure this is a book that rewards patience and attention, that wants us to believe in our best selves.
August 22, 2026
This is dystopian science fiction in the mode of Ursula LeGuin, where characters navigate complex personal and existential issues, and the details of worldbuilding and technology are only brought forward if they are essential to the plot. While it is still a deeply researched book, it is more literary fiction than sci fi.
Earth 7 is a love story (though definitely not a romance) set at the end of the world, where "Every part of the planet is done with us: the air, the ground, the water." Dylan and Melanie both see themselves as not quite human, and that is what draws them together and separates them from other people. The life experiences that made them that way are very different: Dylan was raised in an undersea pod with a scientist mother obsessed with her research, and I won't spoil Melanie's story by describing it, and only say that it flips a dystopian trope on its head. The way they meet is absolutely too good to spoil and a perfect example of the sly humor of this book.
Dylan and Melanie live in an abandoned shipping container and Dylan works as a "groundskeeper" at a molecular science lab - a gardener of sand in a world that is almost all desert. The lab is creating a DNA bank of all living things on earth so that in some future time, other being(s) can reconstitute it. Five previous attempts were sabotaged and they are working on their 6th. In her spare time at home, Dylan is creating her own DNA bank, "Earth 7", which she keeps in a rock container that bears the label "Just add water." Cheeky Dylan.
Planet Earth is becoming increasingly depopulated as the richer people ship off to a Mars colony or upload themselves onto chips in space, while the rest just live and die, along with all other life on the planet. This sounds like an ingredients list for the most depressing dystopia story ever, but it's not! What kept it lively for me was, above all, a narrative voice that skips between second and third person and has flexible sense of humor, from dry to teasingly silly. This particular dual perspective voice was a genius move - it often speaks for characters or to them, when they feel too asocial to speak, or even think, for themselves. This voice is also an excellent companion for the reader, our cheerfully curious guide to the end of the world . . . and after.
I think the best way to show how Unferth uses this versatile and engaging voice, is to sample it in different contexts.
In a conversation between teenage Dylan and her mother about her name, Dylan speaks in first person while asocial Rosemary's thoughts and answers are interpreted through this third person voice:
Needless to say, their goodbye at the transit station when Dylan leaves the pod is uncomfortable, and captured in a picture-perfect short simile: "They hug like a pair of damaged wooden puppets." We also get a nice description of this 18 year old Dylan: Dylan Stein, lanky, slouched. In another time she might have been a skateboarder. In another time she might have had bird tattoos, beaded barrettes, a handful of joints, been nodding along to a tune.
Sometimes this third person voice puts serious contemplation into the most adorable of containers as in this paragraph about human imperfection and yearning, illustrated by a toe:
Sometimes this voice is loving but disappointed:
Sometimes it feels like the voice is speaking directly to us readers:
I could go on and on, eventually retyping the whole book ;)
Earth 7 is a love story (though definitely not a romance) set at the end of the world, where "Every part of the planet is done with us: the air, the ground, the water." Dylan and Melanie both see themselves as not quite human, and that is what draws them together and separates them from other people. The life experiences that made them that way are very different: Dylan was raised in an undersea pod with a scientist mother obsessed with her research, and I won't spoil Melanie's story by describing it, and only say that it flips a dystopian trope on its head. The way they meet is absolutely too good to spoil and a perfect example of the sly humor of this book.
Dylan and Melanie live in an abandoned shipping container and Dylan works as a "groundskeeper" at a molecular science lab - a gardener of sand in a world that is almost all desert. The lab is creating a DNA bank of all living things on earth so that in some future time, other being(s) can reconstitute it. Five previous attempts were sabotaged and they are working on their 6th. In her spare time at home, Dylan is creating her own DNA bank, "Earth 7", which she keeps in a rock container that bears the label "Just add water." Cheeky Dylan.
Planet Earth is becoming increasingly depopulated as the richer people ship off to a Mars colony or upload themselves onto chips in space, while the rest just live and die, along with all other life on the planet. This sounds like an ingredients list for the most depressing dystopia story ever, but it's not! What kept it lively for me was, above all, a narrative voice that skips between second and third person and has flexible sense of humor, from dry to teasingly silly. This particular dual perspective voice was a genius move - it often speaks for characters or to them, when they feel too asocial to speak, or even think, for themselves. This voice is also an excellent companion for the reader, our cheerfully curious guide to the end of the world . . . and after.
I think the best way to show how Unferth uses this versatile and engaging voice, is to sample it in different contexts.
In a conversation between teenage Dylan and her mother about her name, Dylan speaks in first person while asocial Rosemary's thoughts and answers are interpreted through this third person voice:
She must have given the child a name at birth, or at least a reference number, for the documents. What was it? She couldn't remember....When the child was born she'd wanted a marker that expressed many points on an axis, many variables to be solved for. She had named the child XY.
"What kind of bonkers name is that?" the child demanded.
Well, who was she, then?
"Dylan, you idiot. People call me Dylan."
So the child had named herself. It was a terrible name. Might Rosemary call her XY?
"No!"
The child became Dylan.
Needless to say, their goodbye at the transit station when Dylan leaves the pod is uncomfortable, and captured in a picture-perfect short simile: "They hug like a pair of damaged wooden puppets." We also get a nice description of this 18 year old Dylan: Dylan Stein, lanky, slouched. In another time she might have been a skateboarder. In another time she might have had bird tattoos, beaded barrettes, a handful of joints, been nodding along to a tune.
Sometimes this third person voice puts serious contemplation into the most adorable of containers as in this paragraph about human imperfection and yearning, illustrated by a toe:
This was sheer organic imperfection. That toe, the smallest one, the toe of nicknames and songs, the littlest "piggie," the hero of the story of a wanderer who embarks on a quest, strays too far for its youth, and comes roaring down the road, crying out a syllable passed through generations, "wee, wee, wee," seeking home, longing for it, racing toward it....
Sometimes this voice is loving but disappointed:
Oh, Dylan. Oh, Melanie. You are fakers both. You cannot hide flaws that are not flaws but are mere signs that you are part of this world, a place where terrible and wonderful beauties are coming to pieces at every moment and others are constructing themselves out of the remains-a place, in other words, of flux, of history forever destroyed underfoot, forever rising anew from the ashes with the aid of air and water and physics and time.
Sometimes it feels like the voice is speaking directly to us readers:
Some, such as a certain set of extraterrestrials (who do not appear in this story), see all mass as flowing together like uninterrupted light. They would say the flaw is that humans conceived of themselves as separate in the first place, that we imagined ourselves as privately taking up space. They would say the flaw is that we even thought up the word "flaw", as though there might be something wrong with the way we exist in space. Individuality, error-these, they reject. Those ETs are still a long way away, but one day they will come and see this planet.
I could go on and on, eventually retyping the whole book ;)
June 30, 2026
I may never die the way they do, bit I have to act as though I will, pretend that the great punishment is death, while I know the opposite is true. The punishment is having to see it all through to the end, and somehow keep going.
June 20, 2026
A whimsical little apocalypse that’s more about the people who stay than the planet that’s slipping away.
Dylan grows up with her scientist mother in an underwater pod, tucked beneath the wreckage of an Earth that can no longer sustain life. The novel follows Dylan as she builds an online friendship with a Martian, resurfaces to take a groundskeeper job at her mother’s former research lab, and falls for a woman whose body has been altered so thoroughly she’s nearly indestructible.
We occasionally drift into the minds of the people who cross Dylan’s path, each perspective adding a small, unexpected shard of insight.
Written in short, staccato bursts, the book moves like a slow sand bike across a collapsing world — dusty, patient, and quietly aching. It’s a story that balances dark humor with grief, hope with the soft surrender to hopelessness. I found myself slipping in and out of it, but even that felt fitting for a book about holding on when everything else is falling away.
Dylan grows up with her scientist mother in an underwater pod, tucked beneath the wreckage of an Earth that can no longer sustain life. The novel follows Dylan as she builds an online friendship with a Martian, resurfaces to take a groundskeeper job at her mother’s former research lab, and falls for a woman whose body has been altered so thoroughly she’s nearly indestructible.
We occasionally drift into the minds of the people who cross Dylan’s path, each perspective adding a small, unexpected shard of insight.
Written in short, staccato bursts, the book moves like a slow sand bike across a collapsing world — dusty, patient, and quietly aching. It’s a story that balances dark humor with grief, hope with the soft surrender to hopelessness. I found myself slipping in and out of it, but even that felt fitting for a book about holding on when everything else is falling away.
September 4, 2026
A 'light' science fiction novel based on the idea that there is no Planet B - a pretty obvious idea, but one humanity seems to keeps forgetting. It reminded me a lot of 'Aerth' by Deborah Tomkins.
The main character is young Dylan who lives with her scientist mother in a pod on the bottom of the ocean - it's maddeningly boring and claustrophobic for her, but it's for a good scientific cause, as the Earth's surface is quickly growing uninhabitable. Other people are moving to Mars, but will that ever match Earth? When Dylan is finally allowed to leave Earth and work in a lab on the dry, she can't help but continue her mother's work, taking it into a different direction.
It's more fiction than science, more philosophical than brainy. The economic writing style didn't always work for me, but it helped create a mysterious atmosphere. It was interesting to read this alongside Ply by Hernan Diaz, who has roughly taken the same post-apocalyptic situation but imagined a very different society.
The main character is young Dylan who lives with her scientist mother in a pod on the bottom of the ocean - it's maddeningly boring and claustrophobic for her, but it's for a good scientific cause, as the Earth's surface is quickly growing uninhabitable. Other people are moving to Mars, but will that ever match Earth? When Dylan is finally allowed to leave Earth and work in a lab on the dry, she can't help but continue her mother's work, taking it into a different direction.
It's more fiction than science, more philosophical than brainy. The economic writing style didn't always work for me, but it helped create a mysterious atmosphere. It was interesting to read this alongside Ply by Hernan Diaz, who has roughly taken the same post-apocalyptic situation but imagined a very different society.
July 3, 2026
This is an interesting novel though I'm not sure the experiment really works. The novel relates the death of the Earth (which happens with a whimper not a bang) mainly through the experience of the main character Dylan and later her wife Melanie.
There is no story here. The characters wander around having various experiences but the overall feeling is of aimlessness. The characters (and the Earth) live and die and ... well ... that's it. Even the eponymous Earth 7 is ultimately of no importance. The book is nicely written and flows along in an amiable sort of way, but if you're looking for a conventional sort of novel with a conventional sort of story then you should look elsewhere.
I hesitate to recommend this book as I suspect many readers will simple be bewildered by it. Having said that I quite enjoyed it and don't regret the time invested in reading it.
There is no story here. The characters wander around having various experiences but the overall feeling is of aimlessness. The characters (and the Earth) live and die and ... well ... that's it. Even the eponymous Earth 7 is ultimately of no importance. The book is nicely written and flows along in an amiable sort of way, but if you're looking for a conventional sort of novel with a conventional sort of story then you should look elsewhere.
I hesitate to recommend this book as I suspect many readers will simple be bewildered by it. Having said that I quite enjoyed it and don't regret the time invested in reading it.
June 23, 2026
there were things that rubbed me the wrong way while reading this but it ended up being too moving and crazy and unique to not give it five stars
July 25, 2026
This is one of those books I know will stick in my brain for so many years to come. It’s such a wonderful exploration of environmental issues, observational humour, and human connection (and yes, it’s sapphic!)
I read this a month ago, and still think about it daily. It will be a book that I reread, and one that I recommend often.
Rep// Sapphic Woman MC, Sapphic Woman MC . Central romance is WLW/Sapphic.
I read this a month ago, and still think about it daily. It will be a book that I reread, and one that I recommend often.
Rep// Sapphic Woman MC, Sapphic Woman MC . Central romance is WLW/Sapphic.
August 1, 2026
I really wanted to like this. The premise, a dying Earth, odd survival experiments, a love story at the end of the world, is really intriguing. But I just found the book too disjointed and too distant to really get into it. The characters drift in and out, big moments land without much weight, and the ending left me more baffled than moved. Dylan and Melanie’s relationship was a bright spot, but for me, it wasn’t enough to carry the novel. Thought-provoking in places, yes, but ultimately not satisfying.
June 24, 2026
Earth 7 is atmospheric (it reminds me of Orbital). The characters feel like platforms for different approaches to ecological change (Melanie for instance is as terraformed as the planet). By the end of the novel I felt like I was just trying to decode one person’s set of metaphysical philosophy. And that philosophy seems to make two radical claims. First, that life or Mother Nature or whatever has personal agency (i.e., is capable of intentional cause and effect). Second, that the recycling of matter after someone’s death has personal significance—rather than being based in some conception of consciousness. I’m not persuaded by either and didn’t really care about the characters.
June 25, 2026
As someone who typically does not like science fiction, I have to say, I completely fell in love with this book. I picked it up randomly at my local bookstore and the writing style is so unusual that it drew me in and held me the entire time.
I love how the author ties together these threads where current events of today are played out to their logical end (everything from the effects of plastic surgery to pandemics) and they interact through characters that are both distant and relatable. The writing is so unencumbered and the narrative is so brilliant. It’s a quick and rewarding read.
I love how the author ties together these threads where current events of today are played out to their logical end (everything from the effects of plastic surgery to pandemics) and they interact through characters that are both distant and relatable. The writing is so unencumbered and the narrative is so brilliant. It’s a quick and rewarding read.
April 20, 2026
Live laugh love Deb Olin Unferth
September 2, 2026
Je n’avais pas lu Deb Olin Unferth depuis Vacation et les grandes années McSweeney’s, qui avaient fini par donner une signature un peu répétitive à tous les livres qui sortaient. C’est un bonheur de la retrouver. Quel magnifique roman. Aussi doux et mélancolique qu’anxiogène. La fin du monde racontée sur le long terme de la lenteur et de l’éternel retour de la normalité. Une prose à la fois Terre à Terre et Mars à Mars.
September 15, 2026
The fireflies comparison at the end got me just a little bit, not going to lie. Want to sit with this a bit before I write out a review but I love this kind of science-fiction so very much.
June 5, 2026
Sort of like watching a shadow puppet show across the last fires on Earth. There's a distance here created by the reported speech and the time and perspective jumps of the narration. There's also a sense of peaceful resignation about the end of humanity and the end of most life on Earth. Death is an inevitable part of life, the book seems to say, so why wouldn't the death of the Earth also be an inevitability? Not something to cry about. The story follows Dylan Stein and her wife Melanie, as they navigate that end with remarkable indifference. It was quite sweet, and gentle, with occasional moments of humour largely from the knowing interjections of the omniscient narrator. It reminded me most strongly of Orbital via Becky Chambers. I enjoyed it, but I think the general lack of passion stopped it from being a truly great read for me. Oh and there's a LOT of sand.
June 28, 2026
3.5 Very readable until the third act. Underutilized ideas, dangling threads, and zero character development. Better than mediocre but ultimately forgettable.
August 5, 2026
This book was really good! Quite strange in terms of writing and general setting and plot and yk but it was experimental and fun and I enjoyed that
Was thinking it was gonna be a 7/10 up until the last 50 or so pages which definitely pushed it up to an 8 cause I loved the closing chapters and the beauty of the ending scenes
But yeah enjoyed it, good book, solid 8/10!
Was thinking it was gonna be a 7/10 up until the last 50 or so pages which definitely pushed it up to an 8 cause I loved the closing chapters and the beauty of the ending scenes
But yeah enjoyed it, good book, solid 8/10!
August 22, 2026
What a wonderfully quirky and very smart (also funny!) short novel! I guess it’s sci-fi or speculative fiction of a sort…but it’s really more of a human story, about love and family and home and all their different meanings and expressions and variations. Interesting ideas and clever writing—how great to have a serious but also entertaining novel that doesn’t take itself too seriously!
September 10, 2026
Wasn’t feeling the philosophical tangents but +1 for the tardigrade mention
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June 23, 2026"Even if the planet is beyond saving, the author seems to suggest, we still have a duty to see it and to love it."
Matthew Keeley reviews Deb Olin Unferth's Earth 7, a soft science fiction novel which imagines a collapsing planet and the love nurtured in spite of it.
Matthew Keeley reviews Deb Olin Unferth's Earth 7, a soft science fiction novel which imagines a collapsing planet and the love nurtured in spite of it.
July 4, 2026
We are all of us Stars and stardust in this book tries to find its place there at the end of things and at the beginning of things..... And I believe I enjoyed it and did not enjoy it in equal measure
June 15, 2026
not normally a sci fi girl but this isn’t really sci fi? struck both my whimsical and anxious chords and made me feel like #fuck AI . being alive is the greatest gift
July 15, 2026
“Humans did not end themselves in one gulp, but in small sips, and there were dregs left at the bottom,backwash that wound up as spilled droplets across the galaxy, drying up one by one.”
Like the Earth Olin Unferth imagines, this book, too, went out with a whimper, drying up tiny chapter after tiny chapter until there was nothing left. This was really disappointing since Dylan, Rosemary, Melanie, and even Zee were compelling characters worth getting to know. And yet, the book strays from its grounded, character driven plot in search of profundity and philosophy. Ultimately, the book literally loses the plot and suffers because of it.
Like the Earth Olin Unferth imagines, this book, too, went out with a whimper, drying up tiny chapter after tiny chapter until there was nothing left. This was really disappointing since Dylan, Rosemary, Melanie, and even Zee were compelling characters worth getting to know. And yet, the book strays from its grounded, character driven plot in search of profundity and philosophy. Ultimately, the book literally loses the plot and suffers because of it.
August 26, 2026
If you're looking for a straightforward post-apocalyptic sci-fi book with a direct plot, "Earth 7" is not for you. But if you're open to something more philosophical, with some humor to leaven the horror of a mostly desiccated Earth, then Deb Olin Unferth has crafted a book that may win your heart. The story focuses on Dylan, who grows up in an underwater pod with a scientist who does not offer her much in the way of mothering. When Dylan breaks free and makes her way to Earth's surface, she finds that life there isn't easy, either. What Dylan lacks in terms of a winning attitude, she makes up for in grit. She eventually finds her life's work and (somehow) the love of her life, too.
Note: I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
Note: I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
July 10, 2026
A stunning love letter to planet Earth. On our dying planet—scratch that. Earth is dead, a remnant of its former glorious self. Sand and garbage intimate a landscape of devastation and demise. Some humans have survived depopulation, "depop," to eke out an existence amid the swirling dust and debris. In this desolate world, awkward Dylan, “a nerd, and not in a cool way,” meets Melanie, who may or may not be a robot. Theirs is also a love story.
With Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth has penned a speculative novel about resilience and impermanence that conjures the shattering of a civilization and the collapse of a whole planet. It is funny and surprising, and bold with imagination.
With Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth has penned a speculative novel about resilience and impermanence that conjures the shattering of a civilization and the collapse of a whole planet. It is funny and surprising, and bold with imagination.
August 1, 2026
This book is a lot to process - life and death, and perseverance, and what has meaning at the end…if it’s the end. It’s not so much a love story, as a story about earth, and a story about time - what is left. It’s hard to rate, because it feels like an outline of a story, beyond the sand, it feels like everything was left ambiguous, which probably is what the sand represents anyway - how sand can be swept and moved, but it is always changing shape.
August 12, 2026
এক ডিস্টোপিয়ান পারমাণবিক যুদ্ধ পরবর্তী পৃথিবীর গল্প। মানুষের ফার্টিলিটি রেট এতই কম যে সারা পৃথিবীতে অল্প কিছু মানুষ বাস করে। কেউ থাকে সমুদ্রের তলায় ছোট ছোট গ্লাস পড দিয়ে মানানো শহরে। কেউ থাকে সারফেসে যার প্রায় পুরোটাই মরুভূমি। এলিট কিছু মানুষ পৃথিবী ছেড়ে চলে গেছে মঙ্গলে, আন্ডার গ্রাউন্ড সিটি তে। বাকি মানুষের কনশাসনেস সার্ভারে আপলোড করা। গল্পটা ডিলান নামের এক তরুণী এবং মেলানি নামের এক সাইবর্গের ভালোবাসার গল্প। পৃথিবী ধীরে ধীরে প্রানশূন্য হয়ে নিঃশেষ হয়ে যাবার গল্প।
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