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The accelerating planetary ecological crisis is fostering an urgent awareness that the ways in which we relate—the imaginaries that inform our ethos of relation, the platforms that structure how we cooperate—are in need of redesign. Against a wide range of economic or geopolitical odds, there is a tremendous desire to create new forms of collective agency in response to a crisis of our own making. This double dynamic—planet in peril; humans overcoming division—raises the question of what kind of worldmaking, exactly, might sustain us, and what role forms of representation that integrate fact and fiction might play. Literary journalism, in this context, is one register of a broader documentary aesthetics that guides such worldmaking. Revisiting and recombining its ecology- and technology-oriented traditions allows us to create more-than-human worlds, acknowledging that humans and their non-human others are …