Environmental Scientist · Author
Australian environmental scientist and author of sustainability-themed fiction.
He lived six years on a sailing boat called Ophelia.
He worked underground, on tuna boats and oil ships, and founded businesses and charities.
Once, he even hand-fed a hammerhead shark (and has a photo to prove it).
Guy’s vision is the Verdant Age — a potential future time where humans and our beautiful Living Planet live in harmony.
There are so many stories to be told.
Field Notes
The Collection
Marine action, ecological satire, climate drama and the philosophy behind it — every title built around the same question: how do we live well on a living planet?
Marine Action
Lucy Callahan built Aquaria from a high school dream into the world's premier marine research facility. When an oil rig appears offshore, she wages war against Expedient Energy — boarding seismic ships, diving on sabotaged infrastructure, infiltrating the rig itself. Corporate assassins, stonefish in the touch pools, a board that turns against her. The Sealioness of Aquaria Bay must decide how far she'll go.
Marine Science Adventure
In the vast ocean, the Upwell Pump breathes life into the Plume — a thriving marine oasis home to 200 resilient sea-folk. But the company controlling the Plume's bounty has different ambitions than its visionary creator Tom Cove. Caught between them is Sasha, the CEO and Tom's fiancee.
Ecological Fantasy
January 2008: an 11-foot-tall peaceful monster ambles out of a Greek cork forest and gains a global cult following. Journalist Maggie Tarp is embedded with moogh.org — the shady organisation managing Moogh affairs. When hot-shot journalist Perrin Speer reveals they're killing people to hide a deadly secret, chaos descends on the Moogh Zone.
Marine Fantasy
From the depths comes the Anthronaut — an odd-looking sea monster with a grave warning for humanity. Special police and newsmen run in terror, but cadet reporter Pheebee Tinker isn't afraid to get the story. What is the Anthronaut's chilling message? Why the obsession with Spanner Crabs?
Adult Marine Fantasy
Marshall Cove joins the tuna longliner Gutter in Cairns. The crew are permanently stoned and abusing marine animals. Marshall's instinct is to murder them in their bunks, but the mermaids ask him to bring the Clowns to justice. A brutal battle of wills far out to sea.
Satire
The definitive anti-Christmas narrative and, ironically, a perfect Christmas gift. When Mr Hopkins returns to the UK on Christmas Eve — and he hates Christmas with a burning passion — he goes on a rampage to destroy the icons of Christmas. But Christmas has many allies.
Anti-Crypto Action Adventure
Absinthe Rhinohorn runs Bitcrime Division — his day-job is to execute crypto-currency miners with extreme prejudice. When his affair with undercover agent Turtledove crumbles, he loses focus. That's dangerous when you're at the pointy end of Bitcrime Division. Will Absinthe survive? Will the planet survive?
Space Satire
A space satire that will put you off going to Mars, forever. Charlie Darling arrives at the Mars Resort as the sole survivor of 120 passengers. He finds the resort destroyed, all but one colonist dead — and that survivor is a deranged medic called Maddy. Solace comes from an emaciated feline who just wants to avoid becoming someone's meal.
Satire
Danny Lexion has two life goals: look good and make money. Then he falls for Bren Hannan — the Carbon Cop — whose mission is to run interference on ruthless oil company Peking Petroleum. In Dubai he finds himself in the cross-hairs of a mercenary security firm. As bullets fly, Danny learns he's less indispensable than he thought.
Satire
Diminutive short-trader Vince Paltry loses his job on Wall Street and meets burly street activist Chaliban — whose muddle-headed mission is to restore liberty and justice to America by any means available. Vinnie learns Chaliban can't distinguish cause from crime, and finds himself unable to escape Chaliban's disorganised organisation.
Dark Comedy
Special Agent Wally Groodle's mission takes him around the world. In every country he visits he gets Covid-shots: Astra-Zeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Sputnik-V, and even Quazcovid from Kazakhstan. The result of all these vaccines sloshing around in his veins: COVID-22. Covid-19 is bad. Covid-22 is worse. And much better.
Dark AI Comedy
Tim buys the Neon EV and AI android package deal. He names his android Albert-E and styles it to look like his twin brother. They set out on a road trip to the mountains. Along the way, Albert-E reminds Tim he can upgrade the AI package for $24.95 a month. Tim declines. It doesn't end well.
Drama
Wealthy businesswoman Lilly Lord lives alone in her grand estate in Duffys Forest on Sydney's North Shore — adrift in a haze of wine and unanswered questions. One rainy afternoon, she takes in mysterious stranger Froyd Denison, who claims to have a plan for her life. A journey that challenges everything she thought she knew.
Psychological Drama
Rebecca is personal assistant to billionaire poison merchant Gilly Clay, trapped in a ruinous contract. She keeps her sanity through a secret love affair with psychologist Tom Snowdon. When Clay adopts an 8-year-old boy and grooms him as heir to his defective moral compass, Rebecca must choose: keep silent or risk everything.
Sci-Fi
Anton Vorlov runs the world's biggest company from a private island off Dubai. Officially a Ukrainian billionaire — in truth he's Zem, a trillionaire from space spending $100 billion a week restructuring the global economy for sustainability. Then he meets Megan, his sharp-tongued Australian assistant who wants more than a professional relationship.
Literary Fiction
In a last-ditch effort to save the children from climate change, Professor Timothy Bluesky prepares to deliver his ground-breaking paper: A Grand Unifying Theory of Life and Earth. At the last moment the government cancels his speech and replaces it with a fossil fuel promotion. Shattered, Bluesky walks away.
Road Journey
Amid Covid-19, a Vitan Minister undertakes a road journey to rescue a Sea Chest packed with personal treasures. Living in his Toyota Prius — Motel Prius — he drives over 5,000 kilometres up and down Australia's East Coast, sharing insights about Covid, Climate, Collapse, and a pathway to the Verdant Age.
Prehistoric Fiction
Rhone Valley, France, 50,000 years ago. Boman, a young archer, is sent into the wild to find the killers of clan shamans. Torn from his new love, Boman braves wild dogs, lions, Neanderthals, and mammoth — only to discover a far greater threat. A new force twists power, belief, and violence into a dangerous lie.
Sustainable Life Philosophy
Vita Sapien Philosophy fuses environmental science with ecosystem spirituality — reconnecting people to the Living Planet and igniting the effective action needed to survive the 21st century and thrive beyond. Seven of nine planetary boundaries exceeded. 70% wildlife population collapse. The solution begins here.
Nature Dictionary
A dictionary of feelings inspired by nature. Penguinhole: the feeling you get when you learn that Little Penguins swim tens of kilometres offshore to feed, then return to sleep in small muddy holes in the dunes, while you need a ten-minute hot shower and a coffee just to wake up. Penguinhole is the feeling that we western humans have it easy.
Environmental Non-Fiction
In September 2020 in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, 480 pilot whales washed up on the sandbanks — the largest mass-stranding of whales in Australia's history. Through this story, Guy Lane explains how we can unstrand our civilisation from the climate and ecological crisis that grows around us day by day.
Climate Non-Fiction
Under climate change, the end of 2018 was a real kicker. Luxury super-yachts sunk at their moorings, high-tech fighter jets crushed under cyclone rubble, celebrity mansions lost to wildfire — all in one month. Whether you're new to climate change or a veteran, this short punchy book is your chance to wake to abrupt climate change.
Collapse Non-Fiction
Guy Lane shares insights from his 30-year quest to understand what comes next in the climate and ecological crisis. In just two hours, this fast-paced, science-based book lays bare the grim truth about collapse, what it means for you, and how you can help make it better.
The Philosophy
The problem: We are spiralling toward catastrophe — seven of nine planetary boundaries exceeded, 70% wildlife population collapse, trajectory to Hothouse Earth.
The vision: Guy's Vita Sapien Philosophy fuses environmental science with ecosystem spirituality, reconnecting people to the Living Planet and igniting the effective action needed to survive the 21st century and flourish beyond.
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