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<p>Just this once, here&#8217;s a photo of me. It was taken at my party in Stroud last Saturday night to celebrate my fiftieth birthday and the publication of Deep Time. The dress code was ‘tropical’. It was delightful to see &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/party-and-publication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>‘Just imagine the world without … [insert brand]!’ Today, our capacity to imagine is frequently coopted, with advertising endlessly fuelling our sense of ourselves as consumers, rather than citizens of this Earth community. Industrial growth society systematically reinforces ‘monocultures of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/celebrating-the-radical-imagination-guest-post-by-helen-moore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span><

<p>Helen Moore and I will be at Waterstones Bath on Thursday 21 May to celebrate the publication of our new books: Helen’s acclaimed poetry collection, ECOZOA, and my novel of prehistory, Deep Time. There will be introductions by Richard Kerridge, &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/deep-time-and-ecozoa-launch-in-bath-on-21-may/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>A particular kind of science fiction converges with green aspirations in ‘future primitive’ visions of a future society less dominated by technology. There are positive and negative versions of this kind of future – and positive and negative pathways to &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/future-primitive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Deep Time is a quite erotic novel, not just in the obvious sense – though there is some of that – but also in a broader sense, loosely from Plato, of ‘eros’ as an impulse towards beauty and ultimately towards &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/loincloths-and-fur-bikinis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I first came across the phrase ‘deep time’ in a pair of books I copy-edited for the Geological Society in 1998. I realised at once that Deep Time had to be the title of the novel I’d recently started writing. &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/the-origin-of-deep-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>It was on a geological field trip to Arran in 1984 that I first expressed to anyone a sense of loss I felt in connection with my awareness of the vastness of deep time. This became part of my motivation &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/time-and-loss-and-imagining/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/lost-worlds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>‘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 &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/welcome-to-deep-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>