No One To Hold the Distant Dead is a Sci-Fi novella written by K.L. Schroeder and published by Psychopomp. A haunting and beautifully written story that lands a bit on the dark side of cli-fi, weaving a parallel between two traumatic events on a different scale, but also giving the reader a glimpse of hope.

By the time Inga Nyström arrived on Nondermark, the ecological disaster she signed up to help avoid was past the point of no return. Its people are defeated, practically walking towards a slow-moving death; but that's not the only problem Inga has to deal with, as the technology that brought her misfired, creating gaps in her memory, parts of herself lost to the void. With an extinction that is taking species after species, Inga must find an equilibrium that allows the people of Nondermark to survive, and a reason to continue fighting for life.

I found extremely compelling the parallel that we can guess between the lines of this novel: how those disappeared species and the lost memories are both terrible disasters, each one in its scale, but equally horrifying. Inga dealing with the failure of her transfer is a different scale of what Nondermark people is experiencing; and in the same way there might be a solution for Inga's problems, even if it means overcoming the loss of the memories, Nondermark's ecosystem is not totally lost, but requires the introduction of new ideas. 

No One To Hold the Distant Dead is an interesting novella, a dark story that ends showing a possibility for hope; I strongly recommend experiencing it for yourself, as it will stay with you for a long time after finishing it!