June 2019 Open Post

   June 26, 2019
   John Michael Greer
   385 Comments

   This week's Ecosophian  offering is the monthly (well, more  or less!) open
   post to field questions and encourage  discussion among my readers. All the
   standard rules  apply -  no profanity,  no sales  pitches, no  trolling, no
   rudeness, no long  screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of  fill in the
   blank - but since there's no topic, nothing is off topic.

   I have  a couple of book-related  announcements to make before  we proceed.
   First,  one of  my backlist  titles  has been  released in  a new,  updated
   edition.  Twilight's Last  Gleaming  is  a high-concept  military-political
   thriller that  pits a declining United  States against a rising  China in a
   cascading series  of crises that brings  the world to the  brink of nuclear
   war and plunges the US into a crisis  it may not survive. It can be ordered
   from the  publisher here; given  recent headlines, your favorite  (or least
   favorite) politician probably needs a copy...

   Second, for fans  of my para-Lovecraftian fiction, I'm  pleased to announce
   another novel available  for preorder. The Shoggoth Concerto  isn't part of
   the  story arc  of The  Weird of  Hali, but  it's set  in the  same fictive
   universe - the Haliverse,  as some of my readers have  taken to calling it.
   The editor for the huge corporate publisher  who turned it down (and did me
   the uncommon courtesy of a personal  note scrawled on the generic rejection
   slip) called it  "too quiet" and "too oddball," and  with that assessment I
   have no complaint;  it is indeed a  quiet and very odd  fantasy novel about
   classical music,  the roots  of creativity,  memory, love,  death...and, of
   course, shoggoths.  You can preorder your  copy here, or if  you're looking
   for the ebook edition, here.

   Finally, Shaun Kilgore - whom many of  you know as the publisher of all but
   one  of my  novels, of  the  After Oil  anthologies, and  of the  collected
   Archdruid  Report  posts -  and  his  son  Matthew  have just  published  a
   children's fantasy, Simon Greenpants and the Wild Chase. It's a good lively
   story, the sort  of thing I adored when  I was ten or so, and  if there's a
   child in  your life who's into  imaginative fiction, this will  be right up
   their alley. You can order a copy here.

   With that said, have at it!