Check your subscription status, update your details and more. This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry When There Are Wolves Again by E. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wildernesses globally – and a great novel.
Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is thrilled she gave it another chance Wild wolves in Chernobyl play an unexpected part in E. Swift’s novel Last year, _When There Are Wolves Again_ by E.
Swift was published, and this August, the novel won the hugely prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. You may wonder why I didn’t review the book in this column, sworn as I am to digging out fantastic new sci-fi for _New Scientist_ readers.
The truth is I did start reading it last year, but gave up after one chapter. I thought it was going to be, for want of better words, “do-goody” and a bit dull. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox.
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