Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees

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2300-word sci-fi story

In a future where all living trees have been destroyed, a biologist and a sentient mechanical tree work together to find a better solution.

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    • SFF Reviews
      “What a positively delightful title, and what a perfectly wonderful little story to go with it! I was captivated from the opening line”
    • Publishers Weekly
      “a reassurance that the future need not be relentlessly bleak”
    • Tangent Online
      “”The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” by Wendy Nikel adds a touch of fantasy to the anthology.”
    • Strange Horizons
      “By and large these stories, in most cases quite technically accomplished (with Wendy Nikel’s prose-poem “The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” impressing me as the standout on a literary level), manage to charm and amuse as they clearly intend to do.”
    • Long and Short Reviews
      ““The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” was one of the highlights of this collection for me.”
    • SF Revu
      “”The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” by Wendy Nikel is a story about the rise of sentience in an unexpected place and a world which needs help to survive.”