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Nicolas Nova: A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens Natasha Brown Gander's works often create fictionalSet Margins' Publications, 2025, softcover, 256 pages, 12. 1 x 16. 5 cm Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, COVID 19, decapitated mountains, drone fighting eagles, standardized bananas: all of these specimenssome more familiar than othersare examples of the hybridity that shapes the current landscapes of science, technology and everyday life. Inspired by medieval bestiaries and the increasingly visible