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<p>I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to live in a time when you can see that your society is wilfully racing towards political disaster – war, say, or violent revolution, or fascist supremacy – and no appeal either &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/like-a-slow-motion-car-crash/">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>Years ago I saw a storytelling show quite unlike any I’ve seen before or since. In I Become Part of It the Company of Storytellers – Pomme Clayton, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton – attempted to evoke the imaginative world of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/mesolithic-storytelling-made-graphic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>It’s a long way from Central Africa to Gloucestershire, but it’s ideas and commitment, not location, that make a utopia. In Anthony Nanson’s Deep Time we are introduced to a number of different communities, some striving for an ideal and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/crafting-utopias-by-kirsty-hartsiotis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Néandertal is a 2010 film about the fateful encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s also, as usual in this genre, a love story – with the usual pattern of gender and race: the man is a &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/neanderthal-man-and-cro-magnon-woman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-puzzle-of-the-wood/">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />? This was the late, great novelist Robert Holdstock’s flash of genius &#8211; one that came to him in a writing workshop in Milford-on-Sea in 1979, which resulted in an award-winning short story (1981),&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>

<p>Because much of Africa’s interior remained unknown to Europeans till quite late in colonial history, it offered an arena for the imagination in scientific romances written around the end of the nineteenth century. In contemporary Franco-Belgian BDs it has continued &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/africa-as-realm-of-adventure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>