Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth (out 13 October 2026)

Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth (out 13 October 2026)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

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. 'What a remarkable book! . . . Her story enfolds the reader like a dream - so much beauty, so much wisdom, such feats of imagination. I am in awe.' Karen Joy Fowler