British · b. 2000
Laline Paull entered fiction through the hive. "The Bees" (2015) narrates life as a honeybee—Flora 717, a lowly sanitation worker who rises through the totalitarian society of her colony. The British author's background in screenwriting shows in the novel's propulsive plot, but the book's real achievement is making insect consciousness compelling without anthropomorphizing it. "Pod" (2023) applies similar techniques to dolphins, exploring environmental collapse through cetacean eyes. Paull writes speculative fiction that doubles as ecological alarm.