{"product_id":"the-great-bay-isbn-9781623174026","title":"The Great Bay","description":"***WINNER, Best Science Fiction, 2010 Green Book Festival \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased in scientific reality, Dale Pendell presents a powerful fictional vision of a fast-approaching future in which sea levels rise and a decimated population must find new ways to live. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 2021 with a worldwide pandemic followed by the gradual rising of the seas. Pendell’s vision is all encompassing—he describes the rising seas’ impact on countries and continents around the world. But his imaginative storytelling focuses on California. A “great bay” forms in California’s Central Valley and expands during a 16,000-year period. As the years pass, and technology seems to regress, even memory of a “precollapse” world blends into myth. Grizzly bears and other large predators return to the California hills, and civilization reverts to a richly imagined medieval society marked by guilds and pilgrimages, followed even later by hunting and gathering societies. Pendell’s focus is on the lives of people struggling with love, wars, and physical survival thousands of years in California’s future. He deftly mixes poetic imagery, news-reporting-style writing, interviews with survivors, and maps documenting the geographic changes. In the end, powerful human values that have been with us for 40,000 years begin to reemerge and remind us that they are desperately needed—in the present.“An imaginative and thought-provoking look at life in California 16,000 years in the future after a global pandemic and environmental catastrophe in 2021.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Great extinctions have ravaged the planet before, and humanity is not immune. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel set in the far flung future. Disease ravages mankind and  thousands of years in the future, the world has greatly changed, with  technology not as prevalent as it once was. An environmental examination  of the world and how humans can live in tune with it for a better  future, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful concept with a solid message,  highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e “A remarkable work of ecological science fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eSuvudu\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The days I spent reading \u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e by Dale Pendell were uneasy ones… Perhaps Dale Pendell's gripping, chilling, and utterly believable fictional account of future life on earth will make all of us stop and think about what we want the future to look like. We don't want our worst nightmares to come true.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eRead All Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In the tradition of J.M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Pendell's award-winning writing proves sophisticated and literary, raising critical questions for the future of humanity and the planet as it brings a startling contribution to the environmental concerns of the day.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–The Union\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “This is an amazing novel…it’s impossible to read and not do a lot of thinking about the future, as well as what we need to do about it – right now.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eDavid Wilk, WritersCast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A light boat, sailing across a broad bay, with the tops of ancient skyscrapers deep below. Our western North American world, hundreds and then thousands of years into the future. Dozens of remarkable stories, in the unfolding ecologies of post collapse, post climate change. Civilizations and technologies die or are lost, but human ingenuity–families, tribes, and villages, the musicians, shamans, philosophers, and people of power–live on.”\u003cbr\u003e –Gary Snyder, poet, \u003ci\u003eMountains and Rivers Without End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary book that thrives at the intersection of dystopian imagination and planet-scale history...A wise, cunning, and important book.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eSteve Silberman, Contributing Editor,\u003ci\u003e Wired\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This is a winner of the best of Science Fiction award from the Green Book Festival and it's easy to see why. It's a book of incredible scope and storytelling...I found it completely engrossing.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e –\u003c\/i\u003eRobert Phoenix, The Daily Farcast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Utterly fascinating and alternately horrifying and deeply moving.”\u003cbr\u003e –Gayle Wattawa, ed., \u003ci\u003eInlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect light post-apocalyptic novel for summer beach reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eRestoring Paradise\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful addition to the subgenre of post-apocalyptic novels set in California...Pendell manages to communicate a wry earth wisdom and pragmatic DIY optimism about the big bummer that may very well lie ahead.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eRoyChristopher.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I rate this book easily five of five stars; quite simply it is one of the best science fiction books of 2010.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eAlternating Reality Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pendell is uniquely placed to tell this tale. Of course his poetic  skills make for vivid images and insights; unflinching depictions of  horror mingle with tender compassion and irony in the early  post-Collapse decades, while the later years give ample space for the  broader strokes of his social and cultural imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eDreamflesh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Send [this] gripping global-warming-post-apocalyptic novel to your cousin Stan who just bought a Hummer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003eCarrie Sturrock, OregonianLive.com \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A kind of \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e for the entire human species...Pendell's \u003ci\u003eGreat Bay\u003c\/i\u003e has been aptly described as 'wise, cunning, ecological fiction.'\"\u003cbr\u003e-Quantum Tantra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Dale Pendell] has some SF chops and can spin a yarn...from a SF\/utopia perspective this book is a win; Pendell did everything  that he set out to do here, and he did it well.  From a political  perspective? I can't imagine that it's anything other than a win there  too, even if it is controversial.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Omphalos' SF Book Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pendell draws on a wild and wide-ranging knowledge of poetry, philosophy, history, and chemistry to bring us the world of The Great Bay. We should be so lucky to have such a guide— in a fictional or actual post-apocalyptic world.\" \u003cbr\u003e-The Canary ReviewDale Pendell is a widely published author and poet. A consultant for herbal product development and botanical surveys, and a computer scientist, he founded \u003ci\u003eKuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and cofounded the Primitive Arts Institute. 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