<description>&lt;p&gt;Depicting a distant age in which river guardians, mothmen, and condor trackers strive to protect a dying world, novelist Lydia Millet asks whether we can navigate species loss not through visions of saviors, but through patient devotion to what might yet emerge through care. Amid extreme temperatures and invasive insects, this short story follows a team of caretakers who track, feed, and hatch the clutches of “the old ones”—ancient desert tortoises nearing extinction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://emergencemagazine.org/fiction/tortoise-station/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt; the story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://store.emergencemagazine.org/products/volume-6-seasons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Discover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt; our latest print edition, &lt;em&gt;Volume 6: Seasons&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Credit: Daniel Farò / Connected Archives&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Emergence Magazine Podcast

Emergence Magazine

Tortoise Station – Lydia Millet

FEB 10, 202634 MIN
Emergence Magazine Podcast

Tortoise Station – Lydia Millet

FEB 10, 202634 MIN

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Depicting a distant age in which river guardians, mothmen, and condor trackers strive to protect a dying world, novelist Lydia Millet asks whether we can navigate species loss not through visions of saviors, but through patient devotion to what might yet emerge through care. Amid extreme temperatures and invasive insects, this short story follows a team of caretakers who track, feed, and hatch the clutches of “the old ones”—ancient desert tortoises nearing extinction.Read the story.Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons.Credit: Daniel Farò / Connected Archives