The Mycelium Uprising by Rick Brown
The Mycelium Uprising by Rick Brown
English | 2026 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The race to save the planet begins beneath our feet.
Research mycologist Robin Flynn travels to the blistering deserts of East Africa to test an experimental fungal system designed to remove carbon from Earth’s atmosphere. When a devastating sandstorm reveals the organism is doing far more than anyone imagined, Robin returns to Oregon, where her team discovers the field trial has awakened an extraordinary biological response.
The underground network is adapting.
It remembers. It anticipates. It protects itself in ways no living system should.
As climate disasters accelerate, governments and a powerful biotech corporation race to control the discovery. Outmatched but unwilling to surrender it, Robin and her team must understand a breakthrough that could help stabilize a warming planet before fear, greed, and political ambition turn humanity’s greatest hope into its greatest mistake.
Grounded in real climate science, fungal ecology, systems biology, and emerging biotechnology, The Mycelium Uprising is a character-driven climate thriller where every scientific breakthrough carries a human cost.
The real conflict is not whether the Earth can save itself.
It is whether humanity can remember it is part of the living world, not separate from it.
