The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse

Author:   Dale Pendell
Publisher:   North Atlantic Books,U.S.
ISBN:  

9781556438950


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   06 July 2010
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse


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"***WINNER, Best Science Fiction, 2010 Green Book Festival Based in scientific reality, Dale Pendell presents a powerful fictional vision of a fast-approaching future in which sea levels rise and a decimated population must find new ways to live. The Great Bay begins in 2021 with a worldwide pandemic followed by the gradual rising of the seas. Pendell's vision is all encompassing-he describes the rising seas' impact on countries and continents around the world. But his imaginative storytelling focuses on California. A ""great bay"" forms in California's Central Valley and expands during a 16,000-year period. As the years pass, and technology seems to regress, even memory of a ""precollapse"" world blends into myth. Grizzly bears and other large predators return to the California hills, and civilization reverts to a richly imagined medieval society marked by guilds and pilgrimages, followed even later by hunting and gathering societies. Pendell's focus is on the lives of people struggling with love, wars, and physical survival thousands of years in California's future. He deftly mixes poetic imagery, news-reporting-style writing, interviews with survivors, and maps documenting the geographic changes. In the end, powerful human values that have been with us for 40,000 years begin to reemerge and remind us that they are desperately needed-in the present."

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Author:   Dale Pendell
Publisher:   North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Imprint:   North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9781556438950


ISBN 10:   1556438958
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   06 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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&ldquo;An imaginative and thought-provoking look at life in California 16,000 years in the future after a global pandemic and environmental catastrophe in 2021.&rdquo;<br> &ndash;San Francisco Chronicle <br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;A remarkable work of ecological science fiction.&rdquo;<br> &ndash; Suvudu <br> &ldquo;In the tradition of J.M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Pendell's award-winning writing proves sophisticated and literary, raising critical questions for the future of humanity and the planet as it brings a startling contribution to the environmental concerns of the day.&rdquo;<br> &ndash;The Union<br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;This is an amazing novel&hellip;it&rsquo;s impossible to read and not do a lot of thinking about the future, as well as what we need to do about it &ndash; right now.&rdquo;<br> &ndash; David Wilk, WritersCast <br> &ldquo;A light boat, sailing across a broad bay, with the tops of ancient skyscrapers deep below. Our western North American world, hundreds and th


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"Poet Dale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy, a literary history of psychoactive plants. His poetry is widely anthologized, most recently in The Wisdom Book of American Buddhist Poetry and The Baby Beats and the 2nd San Francisco Renaissance. Combining the teachings of poet Gary Snyder, Zen teacher Robert Aitken, and philosopher Norman O. Brown, Dale develops themes of ""ancient wisdom/wild mind."" Besides writing, Dale has been a consultant for herbal product development and botanical surveys, and he's a computer scientist. He was the founding editor of Kuksu- Journal of Backcountry Writing, and a cofounder of the Primitive Arts Institute.He and his wife Laura live in the foothills of the Sierra in California, where they grow pine and oak trees, along with manzanita. Their performance group, Oracular Madness, most recently appeared at Burning Man. Occasional posts appear on dalependell.com."

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