Category Archives: Ecology

Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – Review

Posted on July 7, 2019 by

Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a … Continue reading →

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Alida Gersie’s Earthtales (review)

Posted on February 6, 2019 by

Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the … Continue reading →

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Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … Continue reading →

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Forty Signs of Rain

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

Having tackled the environmental politics of Mars and Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson took on the challenge of global warming. Forty Signs of Rain is the first instalment of a trilogy and should not be judged as a stand-alone novel. Most of it … Continue reading →

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A Prehistoric Giant African Weasel

Posted on March 22, 2017 by

When I was a boy I got interested in the mammals of the world – including a particular affection for the Mustelidae, or weasel family. I guess that’s why it struck a chord when I found out about a large … Continue reading →

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Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest

Posted on January 6, 2017 by

I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre … Continue reading →

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Review: Words of Re-Enchantment by Anthony Nanson – by Lorna Smithers

Posted on October 20, 2016 by

Originally posted on GODS & RADICALS:
Anthony Nanson is a storyteller and writer based in Stroud. He currently runs Awen Publications. Words of Re-Enchantment: Writings on Storytelling, Myth and Ecological Desire is a collection of essays originally written for various…

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