Radicle Network

Radicle Network is a fast-paced thriller by an Auroville greenworker, Paul Blanchflower, that takes a look at the world we live in and the current environmental crisis that we have created. It explores the world of forests, their interconnectivity and our relationship to them. It is also about how things can change for the better. What changes to our perspective are needed, so that we might move forward with a world view and attitude that will allow our society to function more equitably?

The novel ties together the fragments we have begun to discover about the intelligence of trees, the consciousness of the forest and the interconnectivity of the mycelia networks of fungi and mushrooms, and presents a view of how the world might actually be. 

Peter

A thriller unlike any I have read before. The science was a discovery to me and the threat it implies wholly realistic.

Sir Mark Tully (former BBC correspondant in New Dehli) 

What Paul Blanchflower proposes in the Radicle Network is the prospect that technology will expand to include the decision-making processes of nature. A pioneering field that forest biology is increasingly discovering to be encoded in the symbiosis of fungi and tree roots.

Paul Blanchflower, who was educated in forest management at Edinburgh University, is drawing from his boyhood forest wanderings and 20 years experience creating a 50 acre botanical garden in the international community of Auroville in South India. In this book he has risen to the challenge of trying to fictionalise his intuitive suspicions regarding communication between trees.

So there’s a profoundly realistic thesis buried in the guise of an edge-of-the-chair thriller. The adversary is a renegade artificial intelligence algorithm that climactically engages in a St. George and the dragon battle with the whole planetary enterprise at stake. This is a planetary salve not to be taken lying down.

Johnny 

Fee fi fo fungus! Fungus – the gentle giant that supports. Paul Blanchflower’s Radicle Network offers us a path out of the evolutionary cul-de-sac brought on by short-sighted human ingenuity, arguably a collective death wish of incomprehensible proportion. Here, Tolkien’s Entmoot fantasy meets the scientific method in a compelling narrative of round-the-world complexity. Humanism at its best.

Ray Meeker

Radicle Network is available on Amazon websites worldwide, both in print and e-book. or directly from the Botanical Gardens. http://www.radiclenetwork.com