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Bri Lee

Seed by Bri Lee

Seed by Bri Lee

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Bri Lee’s new novel Seed takes us to Antarctica, where biologist Mitchell and his colleague Frances are secluded in a remote seed vault as part of the Anarctos Project. When their helicopter never returns, the ice begins to reclaim both the landscape and their secrets. Betrayal, scientific idealism, and moral reckoning press in with every frigid dusk.

First published by Simon & Schuster in September 2025, Seed fuses ecological urgency with emotional suspense. You can feel the cold air crackle, smell the sterile corridors, hear the whispering wind across snowfields. Tropes: isolation, betrayal, ecological reckoning.

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  • Format: Trade paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Australia)
  • Imprint: Summit / S&S
  • ISBN: 9781761633881
  • Publication date: 30 September 2025
  • Condition: New

Why this book matters
Lee pushes climate fiction beyond spectacle by anchoring it in intimate human suspense. Seed forces us to ask what we owe future generations—to the planet and to each other. In a world teetering on extremes, these quiet fractures become seismic.

For readers who enjoyed

  • Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore
  • Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
  • Emily Tesh’s Lost among the Starlings
  • Eliza Henry-Jones’s The Fall of Isabel

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Blurb

Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia of radical equality and scientific dedication in Antarctica. They are concluding the Anarctos Project: a seed vault in an isolated, secret location. It is a biodiversity insurance policy against humanity’s devastating effects on the rapidly warming planet.

But when their helicopter doesn’t pick them up, and strange things begin to happen, their faith in science is suddenly not enough. Mitchell has been keeping big secrets – from Frances and from himself. The ice haunts him with memories of a devastating betrayal and questions of legacy and fairness crowd his mind.

If they don’t get back to McMurdo Station before the last flight home they face a long dark polar winter together. Alone. As the days get shorter, these two people of firm logic and reason begin finding fault lines in their perfect social experiment.

Thrilling, original and almost unbearably suspenseful, Seed offers an uneasy glimpse into isolation, love and our worst fears.

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