Guy Lane is an Australian environmental scientist and author of sustainability-themed fiction & non-fiction books.

Guy has led an unconventional life, living six years on a yacht and five years in a car, working in offshore oil exploration, commercial fishing, and environmental consulting. He has founded businesses and charities, attended UN conferences, he hand-fed a hammerhead shark, and even befriended a pug.

Guy's work fuses ecoscience & ecospirituality, empowering humanity to navigate the present and flourish beyond.

Guy's vision is the Verdant Age — a future where humans and the Living Planet live in harmony together. Support Guy's vision by reading his books.

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France, 36,000BC

A young Cro-Magnon archer is sent into the wild to find the killers of clan shamans.

Torn from his new love, Boman braves lions, Neanderthals, and mammoth only to discover a far greater threat.

There is a new force arising in the wilds that twists power, belief, and violence into a dangerous lie—giants both visible and unseen that drive men to kill.

Tim buys the Neon EV and AI android package deal.

He names his android Albert-E and styles it to look like his twin brother.

They set out-on a road trip to the mountains together.

Along the way, Albert-E reminds Tim that he can upgrade the AI package for $24.95 a month, but Tim declines the offer.

It doesn't end well well for Tim.

The definitive anti-Christmas narrative and, ironically, a perfect Christmas gift

When Mr. Hopkins returns to the UK after a year abroad, he makes a horrifying realization—his plane lands in London on Christmas Eve. And Mr. Hopkins hates Christmas with a burning passion.

Haunted at every turn by gaudy plastic decorations and Ho-Ho-Ho-ing Santas, Mister Hopkins goes on a rampage to both question and destroy the icons of Christmas.

But Christmas has many allies, and Mr Hopkins finds himself outnumbered in this battle to the death.

Anti-crypto action adventure

Absinthe Rhinohorn runs Bitcrime Division and his day-job is to execute crypto-currency miners with extreme prejudice.

Absinthe 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?

A space satire that will put you off going to Mars, forever

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 and abusive female medic called Maddy.

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?

Marine science adventure

Lucy Callahan is the founder of Aquaria, the world’s most popular public aquarium and marine science precinct. One day, an oil rig parks offshore and Callahan learns that Expedient Energy plans to drill for petroleum in the Aquaria marine park. Callahan dives into battle, prepared to risk everything – even her own safety - to protect her life’s work. When her partner, Sam, starts running interference, Callahan realises that winning the battle against the oil firm may come at a personal cost, a relationship and possibly a family? How will the Sealioness of Aquaria Bay respond to this dilemma? Will she give in to her partner’s wishes, or fight to the bitter end, even at the risk of her own life?

An Ecological fantasy

3 January 2008: an 11-foot-tall peaceful monster ambles out of a Greek cork forest and quickly gains an global cult-like following. Journalist Maggie Tarp is embedded with moogh.org the shady organisation that manages Moogh affairs. Sadly for Maggie, her touchy-feely stories about the Moogh dont sell. so her bosses pair her up with hot-shot journalist, Perrin Speer. Sparks fly, and 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?

Wealthy businesswoman Lilly Lord lives alone in her grand estate in Duffys Forest, tucked away on Sydney's North Shore.

Despite her fortune, she’s adrift—lost in a haze of wine and unanswered questions about where her life went wrong.

One rainy afternoon, she takes in a mysterious stranger, Froyd Denison, who claims to have a plan for her life.

At first, Lilly keeps him at arm’s length. But as Froyd’s story unfolds and his plan takes shape, she’s drawn into a journey that challenges everything she thought she knew—about herself, her past, and her purpose.

Psychological drama about the super-rich

Rebecca is a personal assistant to billionaire poison merchant, Gilly Clay. She's trapped in a ruinous employment contract and her life flashes past through a mane of ginger hair and stress. She 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, Gilly 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?

Sci-fi about a spaceman who comes to save the planet

Anton Vorlov runs the world’s biggest company from a private island off Dubai. Officially, he’s a Ukrainian billionaire. In truth, he's Zem—a trillionaire from space on a mission to save Earth. Zem never sleeps. His organisation spends $100 billion a week restructuring the global economy for sustainability. He’s trained in diplomacy, disaster management, and dodging oil industry sabotage. But no training prepared him for Earth women. Especially Megan—his sharp-tongued, hard-drinking Australian assistant—who’s decided she wants more than a professional relationship. As Megan complicates his mission, Zem must navigate the messy world of human emotion. Can he stay on track, or will Earth’s destiny slip from his grasp?

Marine fantasy about a sea monster with a warning for humanity

From the depths of the ocean comes the Anthronaut, an odd-looking sea monster with a grave warning for humanity.

The special police and the newsmen run in terror, but cadet reporter Pheebee Tinker isn’t afraid to get the story.

Betrayed by her superiors Pheebee returns to the Anthronaut, this time as a truth-teller and a friend.

What is the Anthronaut’s chilling message? Why is the Anthronaut so obsessed with Spanner Crabs? And will the Vitan Minister leave the Moon Party to intervene?

A story about a man who walked away

In a last-ditch effort to save the children from climate change, Professor Timothy Bluesky is set to deliver his ground-breaking paper:
A Grand Unifying Theory of Life & Earth.

At the last moment the 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, Bluesky walks away.

Where will Bluesky go? What will Bluesky become?

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.

When diminutive short-trader Vince Paltry (Vinnie) loses his job on Wall Street, he meets the burly street activisit Chaliban.

Chaliban's muddle-headed mission is to restore liberty and justice to America by any means available.

Vinnie soon learns that Chaliban can't distinguish between cause and crime, and finds himself unable to escape being drawn futher into Chaliban's disorganised organisation.

When the full extent of Chaliban's plan becomes clear, Vinnie is faced with a choice: either try to escape, or set Chaliban's mission straight.

Adult Marine Fantasy

Marshall Cove joins the tuna longliner Gutter in Cairns and soon learns that he has joined a Clownship.

The crew are permenantly stoned, talking shit and abusing marine animals.

Marshall's natural instinct is to murder the skipper and crew in their bunks, but the mermaids reach out to Marshall and ask him to bring the Clowns to justice.

For marine justice, Marshall must risk life and limb in a brutal battle of wills far out to sea.

A Sustainable Life Philosophy

Embracing Vita Worldview will help you see patterns in the growing chaos, to stay grounded in reality, and map-out the risks and opportunities that lie ahead.

You’ll experience a sensation of flow as you connect more deeply with our Living Planet and gain insight into the meaning of life on Earth and your individual role within it.

A dictionary of feelings inspired by nature.

Example: Penguinhole

The feeling you get when you learn that Little Penguins swim tens of kilometers offshore to feed, and return to sleep in small, muddy holes in the dunes, while you need a ten-minute hot shower and a coffee, just to wake up. Penguinhole is the feeling that we western humans have it easy.

In September 2020 in Macquarie harbour, Tasmania, 480 pilot whales washed-up on the sandbanks creating the largets mass-stranding of whales in Australia's history.

Through this story, environmntal scientist Guy lane explains how we can unstrand our civilization from the climate and ecological crisis that grows around us day by day.

Under climate change, the end of 2018 was a real kicker.

Luxury super-yachts sunk at their moorings, high-tech fighter jets crushed under cyclone rubble, and celebrity mansions lost to wildfire.

And all just in one month.

Whether you are familiar with climate change or new to the subject, this short, punchy book is your chance to wake to the rising human calamity of ‘abrupt’ climate change, and how to make it better.

Freelance environmental scientist Guy Lane shares insights from his 30-year quest to understand what comes next in the climate & ecological crisis.

In just two hours, this fast-paced, science-based book lays bare the grim truth about collapse, what it means for you, and how you can help make it better.