Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
Author: | Kim Stanley Robinson |
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Tor, 1994 |
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Synopsis
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. 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.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Future Primitive: The New Ectopias) - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Tomorrow's Song - (1974) - poem by Gary Snyder
- Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
- In the Abode of the Snows - (1986) - novelette by Pat Murphy
- Boomer Flats - (1971) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
- Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands - (1987) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
- House of Bones - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
- "A Story" by John V. Marsch - (1972) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
- The Bead Woman - (1989) - shortstory by Rachel Pollack
- Chocco - (1994) - shortfiction by Ernest Callenbach
- Excerpt From The New World - (1994) - shortfiction by Frederick Turner
- Rangriver Fell - (1987) - shortfiction by Paul Park
- Mary Margaret Road-Grader - (1976) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
- Looking Down - (1990) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
- Newton's Sleep - (1991) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Return - (1935) - poem by Robinson Jeffers
- Endnotes (Future Primitive) - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Further Reading (Future Primitive) - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
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