Future Primitive The New Ecotopias [Paperback]

Ernest Callenbach's classic novelEcotopiasparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered in this volumeFuture Primitivebright tales of Ecotopian futures, as well as a few cautionary ones. Writers and poets, from Gary Snyder to Ursula K. LeGuin to Ernest Callenbach himself have contributed their visions, along with Pat Murphy, Paul Park, R.A. Lafferty, Rachel Pollack, Garry Kilworth, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Howard Waldrop, Carol Emshwiller, Frederick Turner, and Robinson Jeffers.

INTRODUCTION by Kim Stanley Robinson

Tomorrow's Song, by Gary Snyder

PART ONE: STATEMENTS OF DESIRE
Bears Discover Fire, by Terry Bisson
In the Abode of the Snows, by Pat Murphy
Boomer Flats, by R. A. Lafferty

PART TWO: DENIAL OF THE BODY
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands, by Garry Kilworth

PART THREE: BUT WHAT WERE THEY REALLY LIKE?
House of Bones, by Robert Silverberg

PART FOUR: AND MIGHT WE EVER BE LIKE THAT AGAIN?
'A Story,' by John V. Marsch, by Gene Wolfe
The Bead Woman, by Rachel Pollack
Chocco, by Ernest Callenbach
FromThe New World, by Frederick Turner
Rangriver Fell, by Paul Park
Mary Margaret Road-Grader, by Howard Waldrop

PART FIVE: PARABLES
Looking Down, by Carol Emshwiller
Newton's Sleep, by Ursula K. LeGuin
Return, by Robinson Jeffers

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FURTHER READING

Kim Stanley Robinsonwas born in 1952. A native Californian, he is the author of the Nebula Award-winningRed Marsand several other highly regarded SF novels, including his acclaimedThree Californiastrilogy.