Every once in a while a book comes along that feels less like reading and more like having your creative brain blown wide open. ULTRAWILD: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth (Lerner/Graphic Universe, Sept. 2025) is that kind of book. Australian inventor and illustrator Steve Mushin packs its oversized pages with contraptions that oscillate between the absurd and the oddly plausible: robot birds that print habitats, sewer submarines that scrub water, and cannon balls made from manure and toffee(?) that can be fired from laser-guided cannons.

The premise is simple but… well wild. What if we rewilded cities, not politely or gradually, but with crazed abandon? With Extreme STEM. ULTRAWILD is funny, beautifully illustrated, and sneakily educational. Mushin insists that all of

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