When There Are Wolves Again
by E.J. Swift
🏆 Winner of the 2026 Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction
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“Wolves…is about the climate catastrophe, with two parallel plots. Lucy is living with her grandmother during the Covid-19 pandemic and becomes an environmentalist and Hester was born on the day of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion and becomes a documentary filmmaker. We follow them over fifty years as the climate worsens…The big change – and half the time I can believe it – is that King Charles leaves the royal estate to the nation for rewilding…Of course, a lot of people in power don’t approve.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction: The 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
Andrew M. Butler, Film Critics & Scholar







