Pockets: A Story for Alan Garner
In the darkest hour, that which is meant to be obsolete may yet make all the difference.
storytelling
Movie review: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Godzilla and this film can both be seen as modern-day parables warning of the consequences of unchecked scientific hubris and heedless meddling with nature.
Review: Midworld by Alan Dean Foster
At his best, Foster is an astonishing spinner of captivating, immersive, delightfully otherworldly tales—one who can be credited with having given this reviewer some of his fondest memories of reading, both as a child and as an adult.
Kim Stanley Robinson: “Climate, Fiction, and The Future”
On this episode, Nate is joined by climate science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss how he contributes to the discussion of climate and pro-social changemaking through writing.
Uncolonising the Imagination
A story is not just an allegory, or a metaphorical point. It’s a love affair, and one of the most wonderful ways of breaking the trance states being put on us at this point in time, is to figure out what you love.
At Work in the Ruins: Excerpt
To put the whole weight of the future on the shoulders of those of us who happen to be around just now can be paralysing, the weight unbearable.
Review: The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer
I found Dennis Mombauer’s supernatural eco-novella The House of Drought to be both captivating and confusing.
Lifeline: Review
Aside from John Michael Greer’s several deindustrial novels (Star’s Reach, Retrotopia, the Weird of Hali series), Catherine McGuire’s Lifeline is, if I am not mistaken, the first full novel to emerge into publication from the deindustrial fiction community that sprang up around Greer’s After Oil anthologies and carried over to Into the Ruins and New Maps.
Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Stuart McMillen is a systems thinker disguised as a cartoonist. His long-form comics condense important academic topics into understandable and entertaining works of art.
Review: Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
I could rhapsodize a great deal more about the fine writing, emotional power and originality of Arboreality, but suffice to say that for connoisseurs of deindustrial fiction, it isn’t to be missed.
Always Coming Home: Review
Always Coming Home must stand as a landmark of deindustrial literature, from years before the genre was ever named.
What if we became the best storytellers we could possibly be? A blog for Civic Square
It is my belief that we will create the future we long for only because we are able to master the art of telling the most compelling stories. Stories that are delicious, irresistible, mesmerising.