IanD
Newbie
Hi all,
I have been a big fan of Kava since I read Getting Stoned with Savages about 12 years ago. I've never reached the psychedelic stuper that Troost found himself in after drinking fresh Vanuatu Kava, I have nevertheless enjoyed myself when visiting namkal bars in Florida and occasionally ordering stuff online.
While this is my first post here, I have used this forum for a source of information from time to time.
Anyway, I had to sign up to let you know about what I feel is a pretty early reference to Kava from a "western" piece of popular culture.
Green Mars is the second book in the Red Mars trilogy written by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was published in 1993.
In case the name doesn't five it away, it is about the colonization and Terraforming of Mars.
I don't want to spoil the story for anyone who wants to read it but my favorite parts are the ones that explore the cultures that form on Mars.
So I was listening to the audio book last night and one of the main characters runs into a group of people and they start talking about Kava.
I figured there wasn't much cross over between Red Mars readers and Kava drinkers so this may have gone unnoticed. (I searched the forums and didn't find anything)
Here is the scene in Google Books (warning, fair amount of spoilers in this scene)
https://books.google.com/books?id=R...Ha4tDaQQ6AEIbTAN#v=onepage&q=kavajava&f=false
It is a little weird too, in the book they sometimes mix kava and coffee to make something called "Kavajava" which I haven't heard of anyone doing in real life. (Maybe it's like a safe, non lethal speedball?).
Despite the strangeness with the Coffee, I still think it is really cool that this American sci-fi writer in 1993 thought Kava was an important enough part of our Terran culture to have it influence his fictional Mars culture.
Anyone know any other times Kava was mentioned in a Sci-fi setting?
I have been a big fan of Kava since I read Getting Stoned with Savages about 12 years ago. I've never reached the psychedelic stuper that Troost found himself in after drinking fresh Vanuatu Kava, I have nevertheless enjoyed myself when visiting namkal bars in Florida and occasionally ordering stuff online.
While this is my first post here, I have used this forum for a source of information from time to time.
Anyway, I had to sign up to let you know about what I feel is a pretty early reference to Kava from a "western" piece of popular culture.
Green Mars is the second book in the Red Mars trilogy written by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was published in 1993.
In case the name doesn't five it away, it is about the colonization and Terraforming of Mars.
I don't want to spoil the story for anyone who wants to read it but my favorite parts are the ones that explore the cultures that form on Mars.
So I was listening to the audio book last night and one of the main characters runs into a group of people and they start talking about Kava.
I figured there wasn't much cross over between Red Mars readers and Kava drinkers so this may have gone unnoticed. (I searched the forums and didn't find anything)
Here is the scene in Google Books (warning, fair amount of spoilers in this scene)
https://books.google.com/books?id=R...Ha4tDaQQ6AEIbTAN#v=onepage&q=kavajava&f=false
It is a little weird too, in the book they sometimes mix kava and coffee to make something called "Kavajava" which I haven't heard of anyone doing in real life. (Maybe it's like a safe, non lethal speedball?).
Despite the strangeness with the Coffee, I still think it is really cool that this American sci-fi writer in 1993 thought Kava was an important enough part of our Terran culture to have it influence his fictional Mars culture.
Anyone know any other times Kava was mentioned in a Sci-fi setting?
