book ideas
Hey All,
Remember the queue of books to write I mentioned the other day?
Edit Boy in the Box and send it off.
Finish mom book.
book about bears
novel about baby bear who gets separated from his mother
novel about cassie who rescues beavers
book about muse.
I remembered two other books, and then just a few minutes ago had another idea for a book.
All of the above books I'll do on my own.
Other ideas
I'll redo the anarcho book to make it about how the modern left has gone so wrong. That book will be done with Lierre
Another idea I've had for a long time would be a big project. Farley Mowat's Sea of SLaughter is one of the most important books I've ever read. It's basically what this continent was like prior to conquest, with accounts of passenger pigeons, eskimo curlews, buffalo, salmon, shad, etc. It's incredibly important to know what places were like ecologically prior to conquest. My idea is that I would like to do this for the world. What were parts of northern Europe like? The Mediterranean? The Mediterranean was heavily forested. North Africa was heavily forested. What was what is now India like? There were elephants in China. Two problems with this book. One, how small do I scale it? I mean, the ecotype is different ten miles east of where I live than it is here. So what does it mean to say "The Mediterrean"? So I'd need to figure that out. That's one reason I haven't started this project. The other reason I haven't started it is that I would need help with it. I couldn't do all the research by myself. I would need to co-author this with someone. I'll have to find the right person.
And I just had an idea this afternoon, for a completely different sort of book. I was standing outside watching vultures soaring in circles. There was a brisk wind above the tops of trees. And I wonder how birds soar. How do they go against the wind without flapping their wings? I've wondered this for a long time. And then I've also wondered how vultures know where thermals are, to help them rise. Can they perceive them from a distance? How? By knowing what ground formations lead to thermals? By feeling something in the air that leads them to it? By seeing them? By being taught the conditions in which thermals exist by their parents or aunts or uncles? And then that led to the larger questions and to the larger idea for a book, which would be a book that is an overview of locomotion. From bacteria to fish to those with feet to those who fly. Oh, and the Socratea exorrhiza, or walking palm. And then that all leads to how about those who rely for locomotion on others? Like the parasites who need to hatch in water and so they have their insect hosts jump into water before the host dies. And the plants who need animals to eat their seeds and poop them elsewhere. And also the spiders who throw off silk and fly through the sky thousands of miles. I would need a research co-writer for that one too. But I think it would be fun.
So that's what I'm thinking about this afternoon.
Thank you,
Derrick