Richard Fisher

Hello and welcome to my bookshop! Here, you can buy a copy of my book The Long View as well as others that take a long-term perspective. Buying from this site enables you to support UK independent bookshops. I'll also receive a small percentage of each sale that comes through this page - so thank you! 

My book The Long View will be published in the UK and Australia on 30 March 2023 (Wildfire). It's about how to transform your perspective of time, and find hope and meaning within a deeper view of the past, present and future.

Praise for The Long View:
 

‘A captivating guide... The Long View is simply crammed with interesting ideas. This is a beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book.’ 

Ian McEwan, novelist and screenwriter

’A wise, humane book laced with curiosity and hope. It will open your mind and horizons – and leave you giddy at the prospect of all that we may yet become.’ 

Tom Chatfield, author of How to Think

'Utterly brilliant. Profoundly thought-provoking, and at times movingly personal, The Long View is a crucial exploration of our relationship with time. Full of lessons from our past and hope for the future, this is the essential roadmap for how we can successfully navigate the coming centuries.'
Prof. Lewis Dartnell, author of The Knowledge

‘Hope-filled and revelatory … Beautifully readable and scholarly, rich and personal, this book shows how, to leave a robust legacy for the future, we need to overcome our bias for the present.’ 

Rowan Hooper, author of How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

‘A soaring hymn to all that might lie in the future; alongside the diverse and beautiful ways to think about it. Overflowing with wisdom and insight.’ 

Thomas Moynihan, author of X-Risk

‘Few books can claim to shake your perspective on life, but The Long View does exactly that … a landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future for many generations to come.’ 

David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect

‘The Long View is a manifesto calling for a radical reconception of our relationship with time. Richard Fisher documents the social, psychological, and economic reasons we have become stranded on the Island of Now – and charts routes for us to get back to the mainland.’ 

Marcia Bjornerud, author of Timefulness

'A compassionate, beautifully considered meditation on how we think about the future, and why that needs to change.'

Michael Bond, author of Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way

'Philosophical, insightful and entertaining. In a world of short sightedness, The Long View is a helpful guide to understand and connect us to the future. In the light of the climate emergency, long term thinking is more urgent than ever.'

Andri Snær Magnason, author of On Time and Water

'Urgent and profound. Richard Fisher's The Long View shows how thinking differently about time can change the world. The future begins with how we imagine it. This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to be a good ancestor.'

David Farrier, author of Footprints

'Some of our greatest powers derive from our ability to think about the future ... a fascinating tour of long-mindedness, and why it matters.'

Prof. Thomas Suddendorf, co-author of The Invention of Tomorrow

'A hope-fueled path toward the twenty-third century. Lucidly written, The Long View challenges us to remove our temporal blinkers and embrace a more long-minded awareness of humanity’s future possibilities. An astounding read.'

Vincent Ialenti, author of *Deep Time Reckoning*