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<p>It’s a long way from Central Africa to Gloucestershire, but it’s ideas and commitment, not location, that make a utopia. In Anthony Nanson’s Deep Time we are introduced to a number of different communities, some striving for an ideal and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/crafting-utopias-by-kirsty-hartsiotis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Néandertal is a 2010 film about the fateful encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s also, as usual in this genre, a love story – with the usual pattern of gender and race: the man is a &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/neanderthal-man-and-cro-magnon-woman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-puzzle-of-the-wood/">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />? This was the late, great novelist Robert Holdstock’s flash of genius &#8211; one that came to him in a writing workshop in Milford-on-Sea in 1979, which resulted in an award-winning short story (1981),&hellip;</p>

<p>I’d already written a couple of drafts of Deep Time when I finally saw first-hand the Central African forest my story begins in. Unexpectedly, I ended up going there by helicopter and so got a privileged view of hundreds of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/helicoptering-over-the-rainforest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>For several gruelling months at work, it was an episode of Battlestar Galactica each evening that kept me going – till I’d worked through all five box sets. A military SF story about shooting up evil robots may not seem &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/battlestar-galactica-and-ecology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Because much of Africa’s interior remained unknown to Europeans till quite late in colonial history, it offered an arena for the imagination in scientific romances written around the end of the nineteenth century. In contemporary Franco-Belgian BDs it has continued &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/africa-as-realm-of-adventure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Something else celebrated its fiftieth year in 2015 besides me and my age-mates. Frank Herbert’s epic novel Dune was published in that same fateful year of 1965. Some say it’s the best science fiction novel there’s ever been. It’s also &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/sword-and-planet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Reblogged from Trusty Water Blog Deep Time tells the story of an African expedition led by cryptzoologist Brendan Merlie who is hoping to find some evidence that certain extinct species might still be living deep in the jungle. You may &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/11/25/review-of-deep-time-by-adam-randall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<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>