An exhilarating, wildly inventive tour de force, of love, humanity and the end of the world as we know it. Two women, one raised in near solitude in a research pod in the depths of the ocean and one a luxury-resort bartender who may or may not be a robot, fall in love, cross deserts, gaze at the stars – and try not only to hold onto one another but together, possibly, salvage some trace of planet Earth. Heartbreaking, mind-expanding, soaring with beauty, Earth 7 is at once a love letter to the world and a portrait of its slow disappearance. It’s about love and grief, microbiology and astrophysics, robots and planet Mars, and humanity in all its greatness, absurdity and distress. Welding the deeply human to the thrillingly strange, fizzing with intelligence and profoundly moving, it is the novel we need right now, and for all times. ‘Vital and extraordinary.’ Susie Mesure, Prospect ‘This ambitious slice of SF dystopia deftly balances issues surrounding severe climate breakdown with a sharp wit.’ Crack magazine ‘Unferth uses the machinery of speculative fiction to ask the oldest questions: what is a self, what do we owe the living, what survives us. She answers with dark humour, philosophical daring, and a love story that has no business blooming on a fallow Earth.’ Jonathan Miles ‘Unferth writes with haunting beauty about our reckless destruction.’ New York Times ‘This is a truly glorious novel rife with the grief and loss of climate disaster and a deep love for humanity and our planet.’ Brooklyn Rail ‘An adventurous, wry, utterly human novel (that “original root of sadness and wildness”), and it will be here long after we’re gone.’ The Most Anticipated Queer Books for Summer 2026, Electric Lit Paperback.
