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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 of 'lockdown' was for me...

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

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...

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/valerian-and-laureline-and-the-dream-of-paradise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/forty-signs-of-rain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/a-prehistoric-giant-african-weasel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/jean-heglands-into-the-forest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="http://godsandradicals.org/2016/10/20/review-words-of-re-enchantment-by-anthony-nanson">GODS &amp; RADICALS</a>: <br />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&hellip;</p>

<p>One thing I always intended to blog about was my field research for Deep Time. I’ve done a post about the trip to Gabon, but not yet about the one to New Caledonia – and now I’m about to return &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/cycling-back-to-the-south-pacific/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>There are not too many dinosaurs in Britain today, unless you count the birds. And as a kid with my animal books I was underwhelmed by the slender list of living reptiles this country boasts: three kinds of snake and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/reptile-and-amphibian-memories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/words-of-re-enchantment">Druid Life</a>: <br />Anthony Nanson’s ‘Words of re-enchantment’ is a collection of essays which its subtitle labels as storytelling, myth and ecological desire. I’d go a lot further than this, because it’s a relevant book for anyone wanting&hellip;</p>

<p>I’d already written a couple of drafts of Deep Time when I finally saw first-hand the Central African forest my story begins in. Unexpectedly, I ended up going there by helicopter and so got a privileged view of hundreds of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/helicoptering-over-the-rainforest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/battlestar-galactica-and-ecology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>