Mathieu Bablet’s “Silent Jenny” explores what’s left of us when the bees are gone

Mathieu Bablet builds intricate, believable worlds and then plops you into the middle of them without a map. Silent Jenny, his latest feat of confident dystopian worldbuilding, is finally getting a U.S. edition via Magnetic Press and Oni Press, via a Kickstarter campaign.

The setup: a near-future world ravaged by climate collapse: insects have vanished, …