Balmanno, Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1951- ) US librarian and author of the Blessings of Gaia series beginning with September Snow (2006), set initially in a Near Future California ravaged by Climate Change, and under the sway of a Religion that extols Gaia but which has been corrupted. This faith now shapes a totalitarian Dystopia whose high Technology, including Weather Control, does little to save the world. As the long tale proceeds, complex attempts at revitalization suffer or succeed; in the end, a high-tech "solution" seems to dominate. [JC]
Robert Balmanno
born Sunnyvale, California: 1951
works
The Blessings of Gaia
- September Snow (Berkeley, California: Regent Press, 2006) [Blessings of Gaia: pb/]
- Runes of Iona (Berkeley, California: Regent Press, 2016) [Blessings of Gaia: pb/]
- Embers of the Earth (Berkeley, California: Regent Press, 2015) [Blessings of Gaia: pb/]
- Auger's Touchstone; Or, the Wrong Side of Contemporary History (Berkeley, California: Regent Press, 2021) [Blessings of Gaia: pb/]
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