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Sherrida Woodley’s Quick Fall of Light is based on an intriguing premise – what if the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon was somehow linked to the 1918 influenza epidemic? What if, in turn, the discovery that the species was not truly extinct held the key to saving humanity from another, even more devestating flu outbreak? [...]

Chapter 1 of Birdtopia can be found here, in which the narrator, George, finds and identifies a dead chickadee, reveals his crush on Lisa, and drops some tantalizing hints about what life in Birdtopia is like… Back at my house I went down to the basement and tried working on my nyjer seed bird feeder [...]

The morning sun shone through the sticker-laden kitchen window and warmed me as I prepared my breakfast.  The burner on the electric range, powered by the solar panel array on the roof, clicked as heat flowed into it.  I guesstimated the amount of water I would need for my oatmeal and set it to boil, [...]