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Summary
(From the publisher):
From the publisher
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.
Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered here in this volume bright tales of Ecotopian futures, as well as a few cautionary ones.
Contents:
- "Tomorrow's Song" [poem] 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?
- Part Four: And Might We Ever Be Like That Again?
- 'A Story' by John V. Marsh by Gene Wolfe
- The Bead Woman by Rachel Pollack
- Chocco by Ernest Callenbach
- from The 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. Le Guin
- "Return" [poem] by Robinson Jeffers
Original title: Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Planets & Societies→ Ecological Systems
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Political→ Dystopia/Utopia
The following works are contained within this one:
House of Bones (1988) [Short Story]
Author: Robert Silverberg
Bead Woman, the (1988) [Short Story]
Author: Rachel Pollack
Bears Discover Fire (1990) [Short Story]
Author: Terry Bisson
Newton’s Sleep (1991) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
This work contains excerpts from the following works :
New World, the (1985) [Novel]
Author: Frederick Turner
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