I love the jungle, man. And I like sci-fi, and I like fantasy. I love grimy cityscapes and those are a dime a dozen in darker sci-fi and fantasy but the other biomes I really love are the Temperate Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest where I'm from, and dense steamy tropical jungles. I'd be interested in reading any stories set in these areas with a focus on them that take place in secondary worlds or foreign planets.
Bonus if there are: horror elements, an emphasis on fauna, an emphasis on discovery or science, some weird esoteric shit. If fantasy, Aztec influences are always welcome, and the more mysterious the forest/jungle the better.
Think Lustria and Catachan from Warhammer, or Chult from FE or Pandyssia from Dishonored or Harad or parts of Gurkhul places that are described in Fantasy and sound awesome but you hardly every get to see.
The fauna and mysteriousness are the most important things to me but all of these things would be cool.
by Ratat0sk42
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Hothouse by Brian Aldiss. Earth now has one side constantly facing the sun so it has become a veritable hothouse, where plants (many now omnivores) have filled almost all ecological niches.
No horror — this is like historical fiction in Zambia/Rhodesia with a fantasy/sci-fi twist: {{ The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpall }} — there is also a plot point that sounds like fun sci-fi but is actually historically accurate. I don’t want to spoil anything. Just… read it. It’s fantastic. It won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2020.