Who is the Asimov of Environmental Fiction?
And with that statement alone, I can end this post,
but I am usually in favor of overstating the obvious.
:)
The thought that occupies my mind today is whether there are environmental books that make you fall in love with nature (opposed to books that you read because you love nature). When you ask yourself a question like that about something that interests you greatly, be prepared to submit your wits to an astounding explosion of disparate thoughts and memories that you unknowingly carried with you throughout your life! Your mind scuttles back and forth between the past and the present in overwhelming haste and you want to tell yourself to stop and contemplate deeply and not disjointedly, but that rarely happens. As I began to make a mental note of the environmentally-themed books I have read and how they have shaped my thinking, as I likened or compared environmental writing to other science or political writing, I realized I was getting overwhelmed and not directing my mind to grasp concrete ideas but just a slew of disparate queries. My mind is still in fast-forward mode and I am not where I want to seek answers!
What bothers me right now is the fact that despite the many fairy tales and fantasy stories that bring nature to life; the usual diet of environmentally-themed books that seek to educate; memoirs of environmentalists, preservationists, conservationists, I can’t think of many fictional books I have read that I can liken to Asimov’s Foundation Series, or Gibson’s Neuromancer, or even Cook’s Coma for that matter.
This is not to say that such books don’t exist, I am only wondering why they haven’t entered my purview. Feel free to recommend some that you think I might enjoy, while I take delight in this new found pastime. :)
Guess what I found
The thought that occupies my mind today is whether there are environmental books that make you fall in love with nature (opposed to books that you read because you love nature). When you ask yourself a question like that about something that interests you greatly, be prepared to submit your wits to an astounding explosion of disparate thoughts and memories that you unknowingly carried with you throughout your life! Your mind scuttles back and forth between the past and the present in overwhelming haste and you want to tell yourself to stop and contemplate deeply and not disjointedly, but that rarely happens. As I began to make a mental note of the environmentally-themed books I have read and how they have shaped my thinking, as I likened or compared environmental writing to other science or political writing, I realized I was getting overwhelmed and not directing my mind to grasp concrete ideas but just a slew of disparate queries. My mind is still in fast-forward mode and I am not where I want to seek answers!
What bothers me right now is the fact that despite the many fairy tales and fantasy stories that bring nature to life; the usual diet of environmentally-themed books that seek to educate; memoirs of environmentalists, preservationists, conservationists, I can’t think of many fictional books I have read that I can liken to Asimov’s Foundation Series, or Gibson’s Neuromancer, or even Cook’s Coma for that matter.
This is not to say that such books don’t exist, I am only wondering why they haven’t entered my purview. Feel free to recommend some that you think I might enjoy, while I take delight in this new found pastime. :)
Guess what I found
