Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
Novella 39,653 words Recommended by 8 award/anthology sources
Minh works restoring ecosystems destroyed during the collapse, and she’s intrigued by an opportunity to restore the Tigris/Euphrates valley by using a time machine to gather samples from 4,000 years ago.
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor Novella, where the author gets the click.