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Click the cover above to read about or order the new paperback - Surviving the Future.
This too is beautifully laid-out, though naturally in a far more conventional style than the full dictionary. To give you a sense of what's inside, here's Rob Hopkins' wonderful Foreword, the contents list and my editor's preface.
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And we're not the only ones excited by these books!
Even ahead of the official launch there's been so much talk about these books it's hard to know where to begin. I couldn't possibly do more than offer links to some of what's out there, so here goes...
First, the books have had amazing praise from a wide range of distinguished folk, which you can read here and here. Including Caroline Lucas MP, Roger Scruton, Mark Boyle, Rupert Sheldrake, Tim Jackson, Andrew Simms, Alastair McIntosh, Jeremy Leggett, Richard Heinberg, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Paul Kingsnorth, Tim Yeo, John Holloway, John Michael Greer and many more!
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Chelsea Green put out a great press release to go alongside their rather attractive little postcards (like the one above, currently being distributed by friends at various events) and I've already done one lovely interview about David and the books, with a couple of radio stations also keen.
Reviews
Then there are the first reviews, from John Thackara, the Dark Mountain journal, Resurgence magazine and Resilience.org. Kosmos magazine have been inspired enough by the copy we sent them to spontaneously start running extracts online, and John Michael Greer plugged it powerfully at the end of his latest story.
And Twitter has been buzzing with early #LeanLogic and #SurvivingTheFuture tweets, with highlights including these from John Thackara, Rob Hopkins, Raf Manji, Henrik Dahle and Lean Logic's very own Twitter account!
Orders
Meanwhile pre-orders have been such that the publishers already had to order another print run to cope with demand! Lean Logic has consistently been Amazon's #1 New Release in Dictionaries (though I'm not sure how many new dictionaries are released anyway!?), and the two books have regularly been #1 and #2 in Amazon's Hot New Releases in Social Philosophy.
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"David Fleming was an elder of the UK green movement and a key figure in the early Green Party. Drawing on the heritage of Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, Fleming's beautifully written and nourishing vision of a post-growth economics grounded in human-scale culture and community—rather than big finance— is both inspiring and ever more topical."
~ Caroline Lucas MP, former leader, Green Party of England and Wales; former Member of the European Parliament
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Much more to come...
And all of this before the books even launch! Reviews are already being prepared by the London School of Economics Review of Books, STIR magazine, lowimpact org, Permaculture magazine, The Land and the journal of the Society of Wood Engravers! Harper's, SALT and the Occupied Times also plan to run extracts.
And of course as the launch events and these reviews roll out, we'd expect a far wider range of outlets to pick up on the books and be keen to get their teeth into them!
You can help!
Please do spread the word however you can - review the books online, tell your friends, lend them a copy. Or if you know of a group or organisation that really needs to hear about these books, drop me a line. Let's make sure David's genius finally receives the attention it deserves!
And if you're keen to be the first to hear about future reviews, events etc, the best thing to do is follow my Dark Optimism accounts on Facebook and/or Twitter.
ps In my previous email back in the Spring I said that the books would be published in July. Sorry, that was my confusion. The first copies were printed in mid-July, but then the long logistical process started to have copies in all the shops around the world in time for the launch on Sept 8th!
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