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Welcome. My name is Guy Lane. I am the founder of the Vita Sapien spiritual movement, an environmental scientist and the author of sustainability themed fiction & non-fiction. My work fuses ecoscience & ecospirituality, empowering humanity to navigate the Anthropocene and flourish beyond it. My vision is the Verdant Age — a future where humans and the biosphere thrive in synergy deep into the Long Future. Please support my work by reading my books, and join me on the journey to the Verdant Age. |
Aquaria - COVID-22 - Intervene - Heart of Bone - Lilly Lord - Love in the Age of Bitcoin - Thus Spoke the Anthronaut - The Martian Cat - The Moogh - The Oil Price - The Plume -Vita Woldview - Yongala |
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In cities and towns around the world live people who don’t think like the rest: the Vitans. With a unique connection to nature they have insights into what comes next, and how to survive it. In the night and in the rain Vitan walks the roads of Duffys Forest and spinster millionaire Lilly Lord pulls over and offers him a ride unaware that she is following his plan. |
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In the middle of the ocean, the Upwell Pump feeds nutrient to the Plume, a patch of ocean festooned with marine life, and home to 200 hardy sea-folk called Plumers. The company that owns the riches of the Plume pulls in a different direction to Tom Cove, the visionary who invented it. Caught in the crossfire is the company CEO, Tom’s fiancée, Sasha. Will Tom find a compromise, or risk everything to hold true to his vision? |
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From beneath the sea comes a messenger with a grave warning for humanity. But will the humans listen?
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Special Agent Wally Groodle's mission takes him around the world and in every country he visits, he gets Covid-shots: Astra-Zeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Sputnik-V, and even Quazcovid from Khazakstan. And the result of all these vaccines sloshing around in his veins: COVID-22. Covid-19 is bad. Covid-22 is worse. And much better. |
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Amid the confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Vitan Minister undertakes a road journey to rescue a Sea Chest packed with personal treasures. Living in his Toyota Prius hatchback - Motel Prius - he drives over 5,000 kilometres up and down the East Coast of Australia, between Sydney and Townsville. Along the way, he meets people, and shares insights about Covid, Climate, and Collapse, and a pathway to the Verdant Age. |
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A story about a man who walked away. Professor Timothy Bluesky’s ground-breaking paper on his Grand Unifying Theory of Life & Earth is a last-ditch effort to save the world’s children from climate change. At the last moment, the Federal Government cancels his speech and replaces it with a thinly-veiled promotion for fossil fuels. Shattered and broken by the system, unable to continue his mission, what will Bluesky become? |
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Absinthe Rhinohorn works with Bitcrime Division and his day-job is to shoot Bitcoin miners. He is over-endowed with action, but less articulate in matters of the heart and corporate politics. When his affair with ‘undercover’ agent Turtledove crumbles, he loses focus – and that’s dangerous when you’re at the pointy end of Bitcrime Division. Will Absinthe survive? Indeed, will the planet survive? And will he find love in the age of Bitcoin? |
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A grim, adult satire that seeks to discredit the insane notion of creating a human colony on Mars. Space engineer Charlie Darling is the only one of 120 passengers on the Inter-Planet shuttle to arrive at the Mars Resort alive. He finds the resort destroyed, and all but one of the Mars colonists dead. The only survivor is a deranged female medic called Maddy whose driving quest is to prove that the ailment called Martian Madness is cause by fungus growing in the human brain. Driven to despair by this grim situation, Charlie finds solace in the Martian Cat, an emaciated feline who just wants to avoid becoming someone's meal. Charlie and the Martian Cat have little chance of survival, on their own. Will their odds improve if they stick together? |
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A marine science adventure story. White sharks can’t kill her. Lionfish and moray eels fear her. So, good luck to the oil men when they send an oil rig into Lucy Callahan’s marine park.
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Psychological drama about the the global superclass and the conflict they cause. Rebecca is a personal assistant to billionaire poison merchant, Gilly Clay, and she's trapped in a ruinous employment contract. Her life flashes past through a mane of ginger hair and stress. Rebecca keeps her sanity through a secret love affair with psychologist and author, Tom Snowdon. Snowdon's new book - Sustainability and the Superclass - gets inside the heads of the powerful men who run the world so badly. One day, Clay adopts an 8-year-old boy - Montgomery Earle - and grooms him as the heir to both the business empire and his defective moral compass. Seeing this, all of Rebecca’s certainties slip away and she's forced to make a choice. Will she keep silent and watch the young boy being corrupted, or risk everything by speaking out. |
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Ecological fantasy about a peaceful monster that becomes an icon of peace and sustainability. Maggie Tarp embedded with moogh.org, the shadowy organisation that won the UN contract to manage Moogh affairs. Unfortunately, for Maggie, her bosses don’t like the stories that she writes about spirituality and Moogh philosophy - they just don’t sell. So they pair her up with the hot-shot journalist, Perrin Speer. Sparks fly, and Maggie rejects everything that Perrin tries to teach her. Perrin falls foul of moogh.org when he reveals that they are killing people to hide a deadly secret. As the Moogh Zone descends into chaos, Maggie finds that the Moogh also keeps a secret. But does she have what it takes to get the story? |
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Ecological sci-fi about a spaceman who comes to save the planet. Anton Vorlov runs the world’s biggest company, Between Destiny, from an island off the coast of Dubai. Officially, he’s a billionaire from Ukraine, but he's actually a trillionaire spaceman - and his real name is Zem. He never sleeps, and his vast organisation spends $100 billion a week financing the restructure of the global economy to make it sustainable. Zem is trained to handle complicated international negotiations and the inevitable interference of the oil industry. But he never got taught about Earth women. So, when his personal assistant - a heavy drinking Australian chick called Megan - decides that she wants his attention, Zem gets right out of his depth. Will Zem complete his mission, or will the Earth people interfere and end up with a destiny of their own making? |
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Historical fiction set on an Australian steam ship in 1911. Boer War veteran Corben Plath has nothing to lose when his estranged half-brother (the C.E.O. of the Queensland Coal Board) offers him blood money and a ticket on the luxury cruise liner S.S. Yongala. Aboard Yongala, Prof. Frederick Portland is traveling to Townsville with his young niece, Felicity, and his renewable energy invention, the 'Smoke Engine'. Fearing that the Smoke Engine will ruin them, the Coal Board task Plath with murdering Portland and destroying his machine. Onboard the ship, Plath strikes an innocent friendship with Felicity, not realizing that she is the niece of the man he has been sent to kill. As Yongala steams into heavy weather, Plath learns that there are armed men aboard looking for him. Tired of fighting, he comes to see that his own salvation depends on Felicity surviving the storm. |
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Satire about the merciless methods of the oil industry and the hapless antics of environmentalists. Danny Lexion is a property developer and he easily meets his two life goals: he looks good and makes lots of money. One night, out on the town, he falls for an unlikely match, Bren Hannan. They call her the Carbon Cop. Bren's mission is to run interference on a ruthless oil company, Peking Petroleum. To do this, she she needs to get to a UN Conference in Dubai. Danny offers to fly her there, thinking that it might lead to some romance in an exotic city. In Dubai, Danny learns that Bren's story doesn't check out. Instead, he finds himself in the cross-hairs of Storm Front, a mercenary security firm protecting Peking Petroleum's interests. As the bullets fly through the streets of Dubai, Danny learns that he is not as indispensable to Bren's plan as he first thought. |
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Guy Lane is an Australian environmental scientist, climate writer and entrepreneur. Guy's work is advised by diverse experiences that include commercial fishing boats, mining, oil exploration, as well his adventures in the world of climate change and sustainability consulting. This website connects to all of his initiatives.
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