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Tag Archives: Ecology
Storytelling and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment, and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives
Storytelling and Ecology, from Bloomsbury Academic, is my first academic monograph. The writing of it – the second draft in particular – was quite an intense experience, since it coincided with the first five months of the pandemic. The concept … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Mythology, Storytelling
Tagged Anthony Nanson, Bloomsbury, connection, Ecology, monograph, Storytelling, Storytelling and Ecology
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Battlestar Galactica and Ecology
For several gruelling months at work, it was an episode of Battlestar Galactica each evening that kept me going – till I’d worked through all five box sets. A military SF story about shooting up evil robots may not seem … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, film, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Battlestar Galactica, Cylon, Ecology, military SF, science fiction
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Sword and Planet
Something else celebrated its fiftieth year in 2015 besides me and my age-mates. Frank Herbert’s epic novel Dune was published in that same fateful year of 1965. Some say it’s the best science fiction novel there’s ever been. It’s also … Continue reading
Right-Wing Dystopia
The UK general election in May effected a further rightward shift in politics. Similar trends can be seen elsewhere in Europe. In a time of economic and environmental crisis the ensuing right-wing policies look set to head in exactly the … Continue reading
Lost Worlds
One of the inspirations behind my writing of Deep Time was the genre of lost-world romances that flourished in the decades before and after 1900. I first encountered this genre in the movies – and in particular the 1960 adaptation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Merritt, Africa, animal, Antarctica, Central Asia, Conan Doyle, Deep Time, dinosaur, Dwellers in the Mirage, Ecology, ecosystem, Edgar Rice Burroughs, exotic, lost world, prehistoric, Rider Haggard, romance, She, South America, The Land that Time Forgot, The Lost World
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Welcome to Deep Time
‘Deep time’ is geological time, the millions of years over which the Earth and its creatures have evolved. Deep Time is also the name of my epic novel of prehistory, to be published by Hawthorn Press on 9 May. The … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, Central Africa, Deep Time, Ecology, folklore, Gabon, hotspot, Mythology, New Caledonia, novel, prehistoric, Prehistory, refugium, storyteller, wildness, zoologist
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