A review by mcmoots
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets

3.0

Stamets knows his mushrooms, but he also goes off the fuckin' rails for like a third of the book. What kind of mushroom do you have to eat to understand how mycelium is like dark matter and hurricanes? This "whoa far out" attitude carries over into extravagant optimism about the potential applications for mushrooms in medicine or bioremediation. There are lots of possibilities, sure, but particularly with the bioremediation stuff I really want to know what the barriers to adoption are for this supposedly cheap and effective remedy. Stamets suggests that either people don't know how to grow mushrooms or they're just fuddy-duddies who don't want to try new things, neither of which strikes me as plausible.

Skepticism aside though, this book gave me a ton of cool ideas for propagating mushrooms and adding them to my garden.