Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Annual Migration of Clouds | 2021 | Premee Mohamed | Buy |
| 2 | We Speak Through the Mountain | 2024 | Premee Mohamed | Buy |
| 3 | The First Thousand Trees | 2025 | Premee Mohamed | Buy |
The Annual Migration of Clouds is Premee Mohamed’s climate fiction series, three novellas set in a future where Canada’s social and physical landscape has been remade by ecological collapse. The world-building is practical rather than spectacular — Mohamed focuses on how communities function when they have to be self-sufficient, how knowledge passes between generations, and what individuals owe each other when resources are scarce.
Reid, the protagonist, carries a parasite called Cad (a symbiotic organism that is part of this world’s biology) and navigates the pressures of her community with limited options and genuine emotional weight. The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021) was praised for the specificity of its world and the restraint with which Mohamed presents its moral dilemmas. We Speak Through the Mountain (2024) expanded the setting and pushed Reid into new territory with Howse University, a dome settlement whose existence raises questions about what survival means when you hold resources others lack.
The series is quieter and more hopeful than Mohamed’s cosmic horror work, though the same attention to systems — ecological, social, bodily — runs through both.