Hummingbird Salamander is a 2021 novel by American author Jeff VanderMeer. It is set in a near-future dystopia affected by climate change, and narrated by a suburban housewife who is drawn into a mystery incited by her receipt of a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species.^[1]

Reception

Writer Noah Berlatsky said the novel "features ecoterrorists, evil corporations, a race to defuse doomsday weapons, gunfire, fisticuffs, action sequences and hair-raising escapes... VanderMeer introduces all this genre fun mostly to subvert it".^[1] Writing in the New York Times, author Helen Phillips called the novel "climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping".^[2]