Dale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy on shamanic ethnobotany, Inspried Madness, a book about Burning Man, and Walking with Nobby, a book of conversations with the philosopher Norman O. Brown. His most recent book, The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, traces the future history of California after a global pandemic.

He and his wife Laura and a familiar cat live in the foothills of the Sierra in California, where they grow pine and oak trees, along with some manzanita. Their performance group, Oracular Madness, most recently appeared at Burning Man.

The Great Bay tells a cautionary tale of California for the world, where nature takes a final stand against man and the heightening tensions among nations lay most to waste in a crushing break. Post-collapse technology, values, and intellect seem to move backwards in time, as memory of the world before the Collapse blends into myth over time. Combining a haunting view of the future caused by global warming with detailed maps depicting a massive transformation of California, Dale Pendell proves once again that he's a unique and provocative fiction writer and thinker.

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