
Endling
by Maria Reva
4.02
Literary Fiction
Speculative Fiction
Climate Fiction
Darkly Comic
Urgent
Thought-Provoking
Maria Reva’s Endling is a bold, genre-bending work that fuses climate fiction, political satire, and family drama. Set in a near future where entire species — including humanity — teeter on the brink of extinction, it follows a motley cast of survivors trying to preserve fragments of the past. Reva’s signature dark humor runs through the narrative, making even the bleakest moments strangely exhilarating. Her characters are vivid, flawed, and deeply human, clinging to art, stories, and small rituals as the world unravels. Endling asks urgent questions about what we value, what we choose to save, and who we become when faced with the end of things.
