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<p>When I was growing up, all the books about mammals would gleefully tell you that the nearest relative of the elephant is the rabbit-sized hyrax. Molecular biology has since revealed that elephants and hyraxes belong to a diverse group of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/afro-beasts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>In the course of my efforts to improve my French I’ve discovered French graphic novels. They are extremely diverse in genre and style, sometimes stunningly beautiful, and a quite a lot of them indulge the same kind of taste for &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/bandes-dessinees-exotiques/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>The UK general election in May effected a further rightward shift in politics. Similar trends can be seen elsewhere in Europe. In a time of economic and environmental crisis the ensuing right-wing policies look set to head in exactly the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/right-wing-dystopia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/deep-time-and-the-wilderness">Druid Life</a>: <br />Most of the wilderness fiction I’ve read is historical. Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, assorted American transcendentalists, &#8211; books whose authors who had the advantage of writing about places and environments that&hellip;</p>

<p>Jurassic World recycles the theme-park setting of the first Jurassic Park film, but on a grander scale and this time we see thousands of visitors there experiencing it. Every aspect of the theme-park experience is so relentlessly kitsch that I &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/jurassic-world-and-weaponised-dinosaurs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>At the opening of the current Fringe Arts Bath exhibition at 8/9 New Bond Street Place, Bath, I saw – and heard – Alun Ward’s new sound installation, Sea Hear. It sparked in my mind a set of associations about &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/speaking-stones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>On Thursday – 21 May – I was in Waterstones, Bath, with Martin Large from Hawthorn Press and poet Helen Moore to promote Helen’s new collection, ECOZOA, and my novel, Deep Time. Chairing the readings and discussion was ecocritic Richard &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/wine-and-waterstones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/deep-time-deep-love">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />Saturday 9th May: Deep Time launch, Stroud Saturday saw the culmination of a lifetime’s obsession – the publication of my friend Anthony Nanson’s first novel, Deep Time. This 300 thousand plus word magnum opus Nanson&hellip;</p>

<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><