The Wildcraft Drones

"A much-needed vision of how things could turn out well, despite the many dangers we are facing."
— Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future

"The Wildcraft Drones weaves the many realities of a world where the soil, technology, wild creatures, and wild people collaborate on communicating through and past the bounds of language. When evolution is the only constant, these stories insist on centering the protection of those on the margins of power concentration. A reminder that if we do not see ourselves as part of the collective, we lose the tools to save ourselves."
— Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Ignyte award-winning author of & This Is How To Stay Alive

"T. K. Rex reimagines the world, transforming our dystopian monocrop wastelands into sustainable food forests rich with the entanglements of life. These stories are affirmations that however knotted the problems we face are, the keys to a better world lie not in technological oversolutions which separate us from nature, but in our full engagement with the biosphere's complexity, and in our willingness to finally admit we are a part of it."
— Ray Nayler, Hugo and Locus award-winning author of The Tusks of Extinction and Palaces of the Crow

"These tales take us from the first successful inter-species communication forward into a future where life and machine have become so entwined it is no longer possible to know when one ends and the other begins. The world of Rex’s stories is intricate, complex, deeply imagined and utterly transporting. Impressive work."
— Karen Joy Fowler, multiple award-winning author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

"T.K Rex’s radically hopeful and unflinchingly anticapitalist solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, places Rex along side contemporary speculative environmentalist authors such as Ray Nayler, Becky Chambers, and Annalee Newitz. Filled with dry wit, melancholic beauty, and a love for animals, people, and California’s forests, The Wildcraft Drones charts what it means to maintain empathy in the wake of devastating cruelty."
— M. M. Olivas, author of Sundown in San Ojuela

"Love stories that make my heart hurt. Worldbuilding and technology that make my mind melt. Stories that surprise, make me laugh, make me hope. Hope above all. Whatever you want out of fiction, it's in this book."
— Sam J. Miller, Nebula award-winning author of Blackfish City and Red Star Hustle

"Fierce and visionary, The Wildcraft Drones reminded me of all the good we humans are capable of. Over the course of these 14 sumptuous stories, T.K. Rex takes readers by the hand and points out the ways we can survive the climate crisis together. Though clear-eyed and realistic, Rex dreams up a future that's far from bleak. The characters that populate these pages will make you laugh out loud, ugly cry, and fall in love. I was awestruck."
— Lauren C. Johnson, author of The West Facade

"Filled with chirps, squawks, and human-song, T. K. Rex's the Wildcraft Drones is a beautiful meditation on modern humanity's place in nature, and the possible roles technology might play in our own rewilding. Rex approaches the complexities of climate change and a declining capitalist state with relentless optimism, wholly relatable drones, and the occasional talking dolphin. Wildcraft's determination – to resist, to re-imagine, to endure - is a timely reminder of what might yet be, should technology be placed in more just hands." 
— C. G. Aubrey, Managing Editor, Reckoning Magazine

"The Wildcraft Drones is a centuries-spanning epic of ecological renewal after capitalism...inviting profound questions about indigeneity and environmental stewardship seldom asked in solarpunk or climate fiction. Throughout this collection, Rex waxes between techno-optimism and incisive critique, narrating a future where ecological renewal is framed as a multispecies collaboration rather than a mere techno-fix."
— E. G. Condé, author of Sordidez

"In a year when drones have become a herald of destruction, in the dystopic world of global warming portrayed in The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex, it is refreshing to find them providing a gleam of comfort. The science behind the stories is depressingly credible, but the characters, machine and human, are engaging. These stories will make you think as you enjoy."
— Diana Paxson, author of The Chronicles of Westria

"In the struggle between humans and nature, it can be hard to imagine a happy ending, but T. K. Rex has done it again and again. The Wildcraft Drones is sure to spark hope in anyone dreading our climate's future."
— Doug Henderson, author of The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club

"In these stories, T. K. Rex plunges into the possible worlds ahead of us--extrapolating, inventing, and giving us rich, detailed views of what might be around the corner. Each story dazzles and haunts."
— Nina Schulyer, author of In This Ravishing World and Open the Floodgates

"T. K. Rex’s gentle prose is dense with sly humor, sharp metaphor, and an abiding love for the natural world. These stories challenge us by showing us the logical conclusion of late-stage capitalism – spiraling natural disasters, a mushrooming police state – but they also show the endless promise of resistance and hope, of love and lust, of rewilding and regrowth. These characters – both human and adorable drone – will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading (and re-reading) this visionary book."
— Cynthia Gómez, author of Muñeca and The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

"The Wildcraft Drones is a beautiful elegy with which to mourn a future we know we will lose. In its place, there are lifetimes of meaningful purpose in which to explore our fallibility and what it means to be human in an astonishingly resilient natural world."
— Tina LeCount Myers, author of The Song of All

"T. K. Rex's prose is magnificent and their characters feel real...Some wealthy people seem to be reading dystopias as rulebooks of how to run the world. Instead, I'd say for people to read The Wildcraft Drones as a rulebook of how to live in community and find a healthy path to our future."
— Renan Bernardo, Nebula and Ignyte finalist and author of Different Kinds of Defiance, and Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle

"The Wildcraft Drones is the rare work of techno-optimism that sees past the glittering false promises of technology and understands that the future is in the hands of people, in all of their beautiful variety."
— June Martin, author of Love/Aggression

"The Wildcraft Drones made me cry with relief. I can't believe any AI will ever be this kind, or even understand what's at stake, but in handing them the essential work of restoring nature, restoring humanity to itself, T. K. Rex makes me care about them anyway, and in the process makes me believe in humanity again. This book accomplishes an incredible affirmation of life without looking away from its horrors, illuminating truths I'd have told you were impossible to render in fiction before I'd read T. K. Rex's work."
— Michael J. DeLuca, author of The Jaguar Mask

"The Wildcraft Drones presents a fascinating future: hopeful, flawed, and ever-changing as characters continually fight for something better. Rare as morel mushrooms, sweet as acorn bread, and unexpected as BBQ-flavored crickets, it will provoke you to imagine new possibilities and find their seeds in roadside blackberries."
— Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden

"The world has gone to shit in the nearish-future of this collection, as humans strive to repair and rewild what late stage Capitalism has destroyed. Skepticism and hope bloom in equal measure, like wildflowers where a freeway used to be. These stories, like their characters, bear a hope -- that the many networks that comprise the world can carry it, and us, into a better future."
— Khan Wong, author of Down in the Sea of Angels

"These stories make your senses bloom with curiosity — you’ll be rocked into hopeful, grief-filled awe while being lit with a fierce fire to fight for this world of ours. T.K.’s prose is savory and delicate and bubbling with the best kind of imagination that re-wilds stark endings into fantastic new beginnings. Like the best science fiction, these stories make me want to get my hands dirty."
— Chelsea Sutton, author of Krackle's Last Movie

“Thoughtful and funny, tender and bracing, these stories (and comics!) weave together into a potent vision of the crises we face and the strange and beautiful futures we might build on the other side. An essential text for any solarpunk’s bookshelf!”
— Andrew Dana Hudson, author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures and Absence

“TK Rex’s tales of climate refugees, sentient drones, and multispecies networks pull no punches about the hardships to come, yet leave me feeling hopeful and inspired all the same. Essential reading for the Anthropocene.”
— Sarena Ulibarri, author of Another Life

"The scope of these interconnected short stories is truly epic...Rex convincingly expands the idea of what a person can truly be — there’s not a lick of dreary “posthuman” blather in here, but rather a comfortable and easy depiction of personhood that encompasses not just us humans, but everyone else too. The Wildcraft Drones is a marvelous debut."
— Josh Wilson, editor of The Fabulist

"T. K. Rex’s The Wildcraft Drones carbon-captured my heart. I never wanted to leave its landscapes of overgrown overpasses and new forests. It’s a rewilding playbook for unruly life forms, towards a future in which we all belong. At times hilarious, at times heartbreaking, and always so damn smart, this is a book I’m going to buy for everyone I know. As for the wildcraft drones, they will be with me forever. I will continue to look for them at the horizon of a better world to come."
— Syr Hayati Beker, author of What a Fish Looks Like