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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence, forced migration, and collapsing ecosystems, Dee searches for Hawk Martin, a Canadian politician who once visited Bilaluna as a child through the same wormhole system. Along the journey, Dee forms an uneasy alliance with Seka Butterfly, a Blackfoot scientist attempting to rebuild her life after years spent far from home. As stories spread about an alien creature moving north across the continent, armed ICE militias begin hunting Dee before he can reach Canada and deliver his message. While governments struggle to understand what has arrived on Earth, Dee realizes that humanity may be approaching the same disaster that nearly erased his civilization.
Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact follows Dee, an insectoid emissary from Bilaluna, as his Earth mission turns first contact into an environmental warning. Birdgenaw's speculative elements are brilliant, especially when Dee’s pheromones direct thousands of butterflies to a damaged aircraft rudder during a catastrophic mechanical failure. The world-building takes readers into North American borders and Indigenous checkpoints near the Alberta frontier that regulate travel after environmental disasters weaken federal authority. I love Seka, a Blackfoot woman returning to Canada after years away, and her bear dance at the powwow turns private shame into public belonging. The settings are amazing, the standout being an aurora above Wye Lake, where Earth’s sky echoes Bilaluna. Well written and with a great message, this is the perfect read for those who enjoy eco sci-fi. Very highly recommended.
