I’ve read a clutch of sad, beautiful works of speculative #fiction over the last few years, most notably Sandra Newman’s The Heavens and Ling Ma’s Severance. Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark now joins their ranks. Nagamatsu’s novel-in-stories chronicles a climate change–fueled pandemic that catalyzes profound scientific advancements but at enormous costs. My favorite of the stories, “Pig Son,” gutted me. #sf #sciencefiction