There is the Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk, which some people consider a
classic, and Joe Jenkins also wrote a great book Balance Point http://josephjenkins.com/books_balance.html. I've also read some great
science fiction by other writers, really really great plots and twists. I
don't recall the names or authors. One was on a planet with talking animals,
and humans who came to investigate them - has anybody read that one? (don't
want to say much more or could give away the very surprise ending)
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From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture fiction
On 9/29/2011 5:41 AM, wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> As an avid fan of science fiction and fantasy, I was wondering if
> there is any permaculture based writing out there. I know that there
> is a lot of dystopian stuff, but I am curious to know if any writers
> have picked up on the sustainability thread and started to run with
> it yet? I was thinking maybe some druidic high fantasy, maybe with a
> Bill Mollison Type figure as the Arch Druid, or perhaps some off
> world colonisation when all the permaculture principles are put into
> place right from the get go. Has anybody seen anything like this yet,
> or am I just going to have to write my own?
Well, you may want to read this just-in news bulletin first and make
your plans accordingly:
'This is Radio R'lyeh calling..'Radio R'lyeh...........
Base station detects warning beacon, aurora borealis attacked by
shapeshifter and has morphed into transparent images of beings(?) with
the dreaded Innsmouth Look. Display appears and disappears at phased
intervals of 66.897 seconds around the clock(Old Arkham time).
Spaceship Earth has been reduced to a colony of Kabalites appearing to
lack the usual individual motivation and guidance apparatus.
Permaculturists are the only remaining survivors on site able to deduce
and reason though I do not know how long they can maintain their
invulnerability to the spreading plague of sea monkeys that seems to
have absorbed and digested the minds of the other inhabitants.
I think we will probably need to deploy our remaining supply of rugose
cones for perimeter defense. Stay tuned for further news bulletins.
This isn't probably what you had in mind but there is a huge guild of
poets working under the umbrella of ecopoetics, publishing books,
having conferences & retreats, & several universities now offer
courses in ecopoetics. A search on the term will pull up a lot of
material.
~mIEKAL
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM, wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk
<wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> As an avid fan of science fiction and fantasy, I was wondering if there is
> any permaculture based writing out there. I know that there is a lot of
> dystopian stuff, but I am curious to know if any writers have picked up on
> the sustainability thread and started to run with it yet?
> I was thinking maybe some druidic high fantasy, maybe with a Bill Mollison
> Type figure as the Arch Druid, or perhaps some off world colonisation when
> all the permaculture principles are put into place right from the get go.
> Has anybody seen anything like this yet, or am I just going to have to
> write my own?
>
> Chris