An exploration of fungi and their roles across ecosystems and human life, surveying fungal biology, ecological relationships, and practical implications.

In a near-future coastal setting, scientists discover a hyper-intelligent octopus species and confront what that intelligence means for ethics, exploitation, and human self-understanding. The discovery triggers corporate and political interests, forcing choices about study, containment, and contact.

A guided tour of nonhuman perception: the book documents how different animals experience the world through vision, smell, hearing, electroreception and other senses, and shows how those sensory systems reveal distinct "realms".

This nonfiction work surveys evidence for complex learning, problem-solving, and memory in birds by following field observations and laboratory studies across species.

An ethnographic study of matsutake mushrooms and the people and places shaped by their global trade. The author follows harvesters, middlemen, buyers, and landscapes to show how a single wild commodity links local ecological disturbance, precarious livelihoods, and transnational markets.

Two narrative strands span deep time: one traces an artificial-intelligence–guided project to terraform a world where Portia labiata spiders evolve into a complex civilization; the other follows humans aboard an interstellar ark leaving an ecologically collapsed Earth in search of a home.

A hard-science space mission encounters an inexplicable extraterrestrial signal and assembles a specialized crew to investigate. The narrative orients around scientific inquiry into alien minds, neurologically informed speculation, and the practical hazards of human contact with a fundamentally other intelligence.

Suzanne Simard recounts her career as a forest ecologist and presents her research showing that trees connect and exchange resources through fungal mycelial networks.

An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

Set in a future where living form is determined by exchangeable cellular units called cytes and by unstable morphotypes rather than fixed DNA, the novel follows people whose bodies and identities are socially and medically negotiable.

An interdisciplinary nonfiction collection that interweaves Indigenous wisdom, ecological science, and personal memoir to reconsider how humans relate to plants and land.

A scientist's wide-angle account of how species have originated, diversified, and occupied Earth’s ecosystems, paired with a diagnosis of contemporary biodiversity decline.