The introduction provides an overview of the New Weird fiction of American writer Jeff VanderMeer, in particular, the Southern Reach (2014–2024) and Borne (2017–2019) series, and how his works provoke important aspects of ecological awareness much needed in a time of planetary crises. It surveys the current scholarship on the novels and the Environmental Humanities to formulate an innovative interdisciplinary methodology for re-examining them. This involves investigation of the new materialisms and object-oriented ontology, as well as incorporation of critical perspectives from the Anthropocene discourse, evolutionary biology, and Indigenous knowledges to show how VanderMeer envisions alternative ways of relating to the Earth and offers a hopeful vision of multispecies coexistence amidst environmental degradation.