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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
Alvin Toffler
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
Richard Powers
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.
Kayne West
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
William J. Clinton
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived." The Overstory by Richard Powers.
The human species is deeply ill. It won't be long. It was an aberrant experience. Soon the world will be returned to healthy intelligences, collective intelligences. Colonies and beehives.
Text : Richard Powers.
Place : Moiry, Valais, Switzerland.
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Decided to give this photo op the attention it deserved.
This image a blend of two frames at f/2.8 (bg) and F/13 (stump face). Read on . . . .
Feeling sad about this backyard Oak tree that had to be taken down (it was split right to the ground - the ugly split, just out of this frame on the bottom). The view of this frame “life size” is 41 inches wide (I included one frame with a ruler and included it as layer in my edit to measure "life size"). The tree was about 200 years old (can you zoom in and count the rings?). For the redux, I rubbed the surface with a rag wetted with mineral spirits to bring out the grain.
Over the years my family and I have enjoyed this tree immensely and i have captured many images with my camera related to this tree and the wildlife it has supported. Many of the images are sprinkled throughout my FLICKR photostream. A pair of Red-tailed Hawks nested in it for years, followed by Great Horned Owls that took over the hawk nest. Half of the tree had died some years ago and it had become like a Squirrel hotel housing a dozen or more squirrels. Oddly enough even with the squirrels using the hollow mainly in the winter, for about three summers in a row wild Honey Bees had a great hive in the same hollow accessed through the same squirrel knot-hole. I always imagined the squirrels gorging on honeycomb and putting up with sticky, matted fur for the winter. The tree also served as a roost for Wild Turkeys, not to mention the many backyard and song birds and insects it supported. I will greatly miss this old friend.
Next spring, it's time to plant. Of course, not for me - because the best time to plant a tree is twenty five years ago. Second best time to plant is next spring, i.e., NOW.
“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
~ Richard Powers, “The Overstory
"The Overstory" is an excellent read btw - I recommend it.
White Oak Trees, De Pere, Wisconsin USA
It is said that the best time to plant a tree was thirty years ago, but the second best time is today.
"This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans just arrived."
~ Richard Powers from "The Overstory"
My favorite book, The Overstory by Richard Powers. A huge Pulitzer Prize winning novel for anyone who loves nature and cares about our place in it. Barbara Kingsolver says, “a gigantic fable of genuine truths.”
The Reefs Of Earth
by: R.A. Lafferty
cover art by: Richard Powers
Space Chantey
by: R.A. Lafferty
cover art by: Vaughn Bode
The original Harley Clarke Mansion landscape design was by Jens Jensen, a pioneer in Midwest landscape design during the turn of the century. Jensen’s naturalistic design style, use of native plants, and trademark “council ring” and water feature is evident and presumed original to the design. Also the limestone grotto is original to Jensen's work.
Harley L. Clarke was a 1920s electric utility executive who fell on financial hard times during the depression. He once donated $300,000 to form an ill-fated Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society,
When he hired architect Richard Powers to design a lakefront home in Evanston, it was probably the last of the 1920s big mansions in Evanston before the stock market crashed.
The three-story brick mansion, is just north of the Grosse Point Lighthouse. The 37,700-square-foot estate's features include a conservatory, coach house, two apartments and a three-car garage. The mansion was valued at $500,000 in 1938.
As recounted by the Chicago Tribune, he built the house at 2603 Sheridan Road in 1927, but was forced to step down as president of the Utilities Power and Light Corp. in 1936. A stock certificate from Utilities Power & Light has Harley L. Clarke's signature as president. The company went bankrupt in 1939.
With a fortune at one time estimated at up to $60 million, he also dabbled in the motion picture and real estate businesses.
After struggling against creditors to hang onto the mansion, he and his wife sold it in 1949 to the Sigma Chi fraternity for its national headquarters.
In the 1960s Sigma Chi sold the property to the city.
J.T. M'Intosh - World Out of Mind
Permabooks M-3027, 1955
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"The story of a man created without emotions to mastermind the conquest of Earth."
James Murdoch MacGregor, (14 February 1925 – 22 July 2008) was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh.
Robert Tralins - The Cosmozoids
Belmont Books B50-692, 1966
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"When is a man not a man? When his body and mind have been invaded by the Cosmozoids."
Groff Conklin (editor) - The Science Fiction Galaxy
Perma Books P67, 1950
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"Twelve outstanding stories by top writers in this popular new field of fiction. Imaginative, challenging, fantastic, often prophetic, and always exciting entertainment."
Contents:
Groff Conklin - Introduction
E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops
Rudyard Kipling - As Easy as A.B.C.
William Hope Hodgson - The Derelict
Arthur C. Clarke - The Fires Within
John D. MacDonald - A Child Is Crying
Margaret St. Clair - Quis Custodiet .... ?
Murray Leinster - The Life-Work of Professor Muntz
Miles J. Breuer - The Appendix and the Spectacles
A. Rowley Hilliard - Death from the Stars
Theodore Sturgeon - The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast
Ray Bradbury - King of the Gray Spaces
Laurence Manning - The Living Galaxy
“Hounded through space, they held a secret that could set millions free – if only they could stay alive!”
From the back cover:
The world beyond tomorrow the unopened future which lies at a point far distant from the early, fumbling attempts at space flight of our own times.
It is the future of mankind among the stars – but also a future of intrigue and treachery!
This is the setting of “Search the Dark Stars,” A. A. Glynn’s vigorous fantasy of a Galactic civilization which has split against itself and on whose shambles a ruthless warlord of the stars has built a barbaric empire. Persistently striving to topple his autocratic power is the Mutant League, a band of mentally powerful supernormals who style themselves the “inheritors of wisdom and power.”
Enter into this fantastic future in company with the man and the girl who dare to battle against the might of the New Empire – and who hold a guarded, vital secret. Travel with them in their urgent, hunted and hounded flight across the far-flung void of interstellar space and among the myriad worlds of peril of the starways.
“Search the Dark Stars” is a dynamic work of science fiction, a vivid novel of vast scope and swift action.
If your sense of wonder is jaded – try it!
MacFadden Books 50-418, 1968. Cover artist isn't credited but it looks like a photograph of a three-dimensional realization of a Richard Powers painting.
Jack Matcha - Prowler in the Night
Gold Medal Books 873, 1959
Cover Artist: uncredited. I've seen this attributed to Richard Powers, but to my eye it's more like Irv Docktor.
Confirmed Richard Powers by none other than his son. The model was Powers' wife.
"He was a gentle man who hated to kill – or so he would have told you if you lived long enough to hear him."
The story is set on the Northumberland moors, where Daphne Hazel appears to cross the boundaries of time, becoming involved with terrifying personalities from the mysterious past.
Murray Leinster - War With the Gizmos
Gold Medal Books s751, 1958
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"The deadly vapors had experimented with animals – now they knew how to kill men."
Thank you Renee for the ID!
The original Harley Clarke Mansion landscape design was by Jens Jensen, a pioneer in Midwest landscape design during the turn of the century. Jensen’s naturalistic design style, use of native plants, and trademark “council ring” and water feature is evident and presumed original to the design. Also the limestone grotto is original to Jensen's work.
Harley L. Clarke was a 1920s electric utility executive who fell on financial hard times during the depression. He once donated $300,000 to form an ill-fated Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society,
When he hired architect Richard Powers to design a lakefront home in Evanston, it was probably the last of the 1920s big mansions in Evanston before the stock market crashed.
The three-story brick mansion, is just north of the Grosse Point Lighthouse. The 37,700-square-foot estate's features include a conservatory, coach house, two apartments and a three-car garage. The mansion was valued at $500,000 in 1938.
As recounted by the Chicago Tribune, he built the house at 2603 Sheridan Road in 1927, but was forced to step down as president of the Utilities Power and Light Corp. in 1936. A stock certificate from Utilities Power & Light has Harley L. Clarke's signature as president. The company went bankrupt in 1939.
With a fortune at one time estimated at up to $60 million, he also dabbled in the motion picture and real estate businesses.
After struggling against creditors to hang onto the mansion, he and his wife sold it in 1949 to the Sigma Chi fraternity for its national headquarters.
In the 1960s Sigma Chi sold the property to the city. It now sits empty.
Arthur C. Clarke - Tales from the White Hart
Ballantine Books 186, 1957
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"A sparkling collection of scientific tall stories..."
Contents:
Silence Please
Big Game Hunt
Patent Pending
Armaments Race
Critical Mass
The Ultimate Melody
The Pacifist
The Next Tenants
Moving Spirit
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
The Reluctant Orchid
Cold War
What Goes Up
Sleeping Beauty
The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
From the back cover:
Isaac Asimov is a master of Science Fiction as well as an established scientist. "The Naked Sun" is his startling novel of a universe menaced by its own machine-creations.
In "The Naked Sun" the basic laws of robotics as established by Asimov undergo a dangerous change. While Law I originally read "A robot may not injure a human being. . ." it now reads "A robot may do nothing that, to its knowledge, will harm a human being." The implications of this change are enormous on a planet like Solaria where there are only 20,000 men to 200,000,000 positronic robots.
It took Earthman Elijah Baley to point out how unsafe the universe would be until the true nature of the new robots was understood.
Edson McCann - Preferred Risk
Dell Books R114, 1962
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"Winner of the Galaxy-Simon & Schuster Science-Fiction Contest"
Edson McCann was a pseudonym of Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey
Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book Club Edition 1959. Jacket design by Richard Powers.
Jacket design influenced by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian.
Helen Walker Puner - Freud: His Life and His Mind
Dell Books LC137, 1959
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"An exciting and controversial biography including the theory of psychoanalysis."
Henry Kuttner - Destination Infinity
(Original Title: Fury)
Avon Books T-275, 1958
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"A race of mutants stood between man and the stars!"
From the back cover:
HOW LONG HAD HE BEEN LOST IN SPACE?
Slowly, Kirk Hammond pushed his way back to consciousness. He remembered then that there had been trouble -- that his ship Explorer 19, earth's first manned satellite, had failed to orbit properly -- that he had gone astray in space.
Hammond looked up at the sky to get his bearings. He was a man who knew the constellations thoroughly, but it seemed to him there was something wrong with the stars. Something terribly, insanely wrong.
Frantically he checked again. No, the vast star clock did not lie. The truth hit him then like an icy belt of terror. Either he was mad, or dead -- or he had been asleep in space for nearly a thousand centuries!
Frederik Pohl (editor) - STAR Science Fiction Stories No. 2
Ballantine Books 55, 1953
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
Contents:
Alfred Bester - Disappearing Act
Theodore Sturgeon - The Clinic
A.J. Budrys - The Congruent People
Hal Clement - Critical Factor
Jerome Bixby - It's a Good Life
Lester del Rey - A Pound of Cure
Robert Crane - The Purple Fields
James Blish - F Y I
Anthony Boucher - Conquest
Fletcher Pratt - Hormones
Robert Sheckley - The Odor of Thought
Jack Williamson - The Happiest Creature
C.M. Kornbluth - The Remorseful
Richard Wilson - Friend of the Family
Quoting from the back cover:
"The planet of the Seven Suns. . .
"The great ship came to rest on the world that once had been the center of the Universe. Now it was still and empty, in utter silence as Alvin stepped out of the air-lock with Theon.
"A feeling of loneliness such as he had never before experienced seemed to overwhelm him. So this, he thought sadly, was the end of all his searching. Now he could understand the fear of his people for the great spaces of the Universe, for he had seen the stars scattered like dust across the heavens and he knew that what was left of Time was not enough to explore them all.
"Suddenly Theon's hand clenched his arm. 'Let's go back to the ship, Alvin,' he said in alarm. 'There's something coming . . ."
Cover art by Richard Powers.
Published in the UK by Frederick Muller Ltd.
Originally published in the US by GM Books # s 751 - 1958 (see below)
Basil Davenport (editor) - Invisible Men
Ballantine Books 401K, 1960
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"Provocative stories of the weird and humorous delights of invisibility."
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Weissenbroch Spectacles
Jack London - The Shadow and the Flash
H.G. Wells - The New Accelerator
Ray Bradbury - Invisible Boy
Maurice LeBlanc - The Invisible Prisoner
H.L. Gold - Love in the Dark
Fitz-James O'Brien - What Was It?
John Collier - The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island
Charles Beaumont - The Vanishing American
Theodore Sturgeon - Shottle Bop
Henry Slesar - The Invisible Man Murder Case
Murray Leinster - War With the Gizmos
Gold Medal Books s751, 1958
Cover Artist: Richard Powers
"The first battles began in the wilderness. [...] And now it was man's turn. Now the strange wispy vapors. the strange blood-sucking vapors, had tired of animals and looked hungrily toward people."
From the back cover:
"All living organisms grow old and die. But suppose you could arrest the process, slow it down, so that the normal life-span was increased to 300 years? Suppose, too, that this means 300 years of vital, active life -- without the infirmities of age?
"Suppose that you knew how to bring this about -- What would such a secret be worth? How could you protect it? How would you decide who deserved your knowledge? For you hold in your hands the gift of life itself . . . and you can only give it to a few."
Quoting from the back cover:
"If the Nazis had in fact won their war, we could have expected to see -- those of us who were still around -- a systematic development of the master-race concept into a kind of feudal structure, with a small oligarchy of immensely powerful and capricious overlords, a middle stratum of fiendishly conscientious Party administrators, and a huge slave-proletariat absolutely subject to the whim of their masters, even to lengths of providing them, as here, with human game for the chase."
--- Kingsley Amis