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Ecopunks
Wolf Cliss – ecowarrior and green philosopher – is arrested in Slovenia while protesting against the destruction of an ancient oak forest to make way for a new motorway. He has been arrested dozens of times before, but now he is being blamed for a logger’s death.
Kei Yushiro is an alternative archaeologist who while working on a dig in the Sahara Desert thinks she has stumbled on proof that human civilizations may have existed thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Lorcan O’Malley , a former wandering Irish musician, literally blew his mind on psychedelic drugs during the 60s and four decades later is still struggling to comprehend the terrifying insights into the human psyche that opened up before him.
Ecopunks follows Wolf as he battles to save rainforests in Asia and South America, faces being obliterated in a nuclear testing zone in the Pacific Ocean and runs the gauntlet of big business and governments who label him an ecoterrorist.
He is an archetype of the modern age but behind the image is a vulnerable man who bitterly resents the caricature that he has become.
Kei’s controversial theories about a sophisticated human civilization that existed long before official history began are dismissed mainstream historians, but the evidence is there in ancient structures on every continent and myths in every culture.
It take’s Lorcan’s frazzled mind to draw the strands together and come to the conclusion that history is screaming a warning to us about the dangers of ignoring the consequence of accelerating climate change
Part adventure story, part psychological thriller and part new age philosophy, ecopunks is an environmental parable for the 21st century.
Kei Yushiro is an alternative archaeologist who while working on a dig in the Sahara Desert thinks she has stumbled on proof that human civilizations may have existed thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Lorcan O’Malley , a former wandering Irish musician, literally blew his mind on psychedelic drugs during the 60s and four decades later is still struggling to comprehend the terrifying insights into the human psyche that opened up before him.
Ecopunks follows Wolf as he battles to save rainforests in Asia and South America, faces being obliterated in a nuclear testing zone in the Pacific Ocean and runs the gauntlet of big business and governments who label him an ecoterrorist.
He is an archetype of the modern age but behind the image is a vulnerable man who bitterly resents the caricature that he has become.
Kei’s controversial theories about a sophisticated human civilization that existed long before official history began are dismissed mainstream historians, but the evidence is there in ancient structures on every continent and myths in every culture.
It take’s Lorcan’s frazzled mind to draw the strands together and come to the conclusion that history is screaming a warning to us about the dangers of ignoring the consequence of accelerating climate change
Part adventure story, part psychological thriller and part new age philosophy, ecopunks is an environmental parable for the 21st century.
225 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Tony Bailie
8 books2 followersTony Bailie is an Irish novelist, poet, and journalist. His third novel A Verse to Murder was published as an ebook in 2012. His previous two novels, ecopunks (2010) and The Lost Chord (2006) were both published in paperback by Lagan Press.
He has also written two collection of poems, Coill, (2005) and Tranquillity of Stone (2010) both published by Lapwing Publication.
His story The Druid’s Dance appeared in the award-winning Irish crime-fiction anthology Requiems for the Departed published in June 2010 by Morrigan Books.
He had three haiku included in Bamboo Dreams (2012) an anthology of Irish Haiku.
Individual poems and short stories have been published in various journals and magazines.
He plays guitar and occasionally sings with the band Samson Stone.
He has also written two collection of poems, Coill, (2005) and Tranquillity of Stone (2010) both published by Lapwing Publication.
His story The Druid’s Dance appeared in the award-winning Irish crime-fiction anthology Requiems for the Departed published in June 2010 by Morrigan Books.
He had three haiku included in Bamboo Dreams (2012) an anthology of Irish Haiku.
Individual poems and short stories have been published in various journals and magazines.
He plays guitar and occasionally sings with the band Samson Stone.
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April 3, 2012
Enjoyable tale of eco warriors which managed to make me thing a bit about the environment, particularly the small drip drip damage being done all the time. Having said that it is not a book that preaches. Personally I enjoyed the relationships between the three main characters and how they changed over time as the challenges of the adventure had an impact.
Author was born in Northern Ireland
Author was born in Northern Ireland
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