The Future is Wild

[ffutures]

In the Oxfam bookshop this lunchtime I found a rather nice book called The Future is Wild - A Natural History of the Future by Dougal Dixon and John Adams, turns out to be linked to a TV show of the same name from the discovery channel:

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/futureiswild/futureiswild.html

The web site has some niceish wallpaper and other illustrations.

The book seems to be along the same lines as Dixon's "After Man", though the biology is rather different. More emphasis on invertebrates, especially molluscs. Not quite so cuddly, but I suspect a little more plausible.

Anyone know if there are plans to show this on UK terrestrial TV?

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

It's a great book. I have to manfully resist the urge to rip off the squibbons every time I create an alien race for Traveller.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Aftr Man was pretty good too, especially some of the weirder small mammals. If you haven't seen it I thoroughly recommend it.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

My parents bought me a copy when it first came out; I was about 10 or 12 at the time. It's been a huge influence on me over the years, one of the things that made me a "gearhead" for alien ecology and races rather than a member of the "might as well have a zip up the front" crowd.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

It's available on DVD in the US (my friends have a copy), and it looks like it's also available in the UK: you could always rent it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

the R1 triple DVD set looks pretty cheap - might buy that.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

It was on BBC 2 over Christmas in a really crap slot...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think about the only TV I watched over Xmas was the Harry Potter film and the news immediately after the tsunami. I was finishing off the new FF CD-ROM and O.D.-ing on my back stock of DVDs I'd purchased but not watched.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

They showed it on Sky a couple of years back, and I videoed it. It was repeated before Christmas on Freeview, I forget which channel.

The programs are good, would you like to borrow the videos?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If it's on DVD I'll get that, I think. (checks) Amazon are doing it expensively in region 2, or cheapish in region 1. Think I might buy the region 1 set.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

It's already been shown on terrestrial. BBC2 over the winter, Sunday lunchtimes. I missed most of the series because I could never remember that it was on until too late. It's just not a natural time for that sort of programme.