Incomplete thinking, fragments, experiments, dilettantism.
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C J Fryer
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cjfryerThursday on Earth
There's a bunch of non-fiction on this theme
- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal (Justin Gregg)
- Other Minds (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
- The Sea Inside (Philip Hoare)
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Frans de Waal)
- An Immense World (Ed Yong)
But where is the #fiction?
Forgot the hashtags. Buddies, pls see above:
#amwriting #writing #fiction #writingcommunity #nature #animals
Hello friends. I'm looking for fiction with the theme: "nature complains that humans suck"
I have a couple:
- Die Konferenz der Tiere (Erich Kestner, possibly influenced by Attar of Nishapur's Conference of the Birds)
- The Great Silence (Ted Chiang, almost certainly influenced by Silent Spring)
There's a body of work where aliens complain that humans suck, e.g. Chocky and countless others, and myriad titles where "humans complain that humans suck".
But I'm after category 1. Please help!
@MicroSFF Bill and Ted FTW.
Bill and Ted Beat the Grim reaper at Twister
Looking at a map, I'm struck by the fact that a great portion of the globe came...
Looking at a map, I'm struck by the fact that a great portion of the globe came...
At second glance, you might wonder why the Northmen, Danes, Swedes, etc, didn't go on to conquer the world. But in a sense (or two or three senses), they did. One: Britain was conquered no less than three times by people from that region; in the historical period, the fifth, ninth and eleventh centuries. So, in a sense, the conquest of the New World was an Anglo-Saxon-Danish-Norman endeavour. Two: the Normans ruled isolated but fantastically wealthy and successful potentates: Normandy, England, Sicily, the Holy Land, etc. Three: the Northmen penetrated the very heart of the European continent by river, not by ocean. The Varangian Guard at Constantinople was the B...
I imagine a conversation with the hectoring high priest of atheism, Richard...
https://write.as/cjfryer/i-imagine-a-conversation-with-the-hectoring-high-priest-of-atheism-richard
I imagine a conversation with the hectoring high priest of atheism, Richard...
"You are concerned with how life came about; I am concerned with how life should be lived." It is child's play to dismiss the Creation as it is written in Genesis, not least because even a cursory reading reveals there are in fact two creation stories in Gen....
Colin FryBonfire leaf-smoke scented sentinel:
Watch for coming snow.
Feet will crush that patchwork frosty stitch
As they come and go.
Looking up I see a spinnaker
Masted to the moon.
They've sailed this way just to be with us
Don't judge them too soon.