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Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

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AbeBooks

Language
  
English

Pages
  
352

Originally published
  
1994

Genre
  
Science Fiction

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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Hardcover

ISBN
  
978-0-312-85474-4

Page count
  
352

Editor
  
Kim Stanley Robinson

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Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias is a 1994 collection of short stories edited by Kim Stanley Robinson. It republishes notable short works of utopian and dystopian fiction that incorporate elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism.

Contents

Contents

  • An introduction by Robinson, outlining the visionary role of such fiction
  • Tomorrow's Song, Gary Snyder (a poem)
  • Part one: "Statements of desire"
  • Bears Discover Fire, Terry Bisson
  • In the Abode of the Snows, Pat Murphy
  • Boomer Flats, R. A. Lafferty
  • Part two: "Denial of the body"
  • Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands, Garry Kilworth
  • Part three: "But what were they really like?"
  • House of Bones, Robert Silverberg
  • Part four: "And might we ever be like that again?"
  • 'A Story' by John V. Marsch, Gene Wolfe
  • The Bead Woman, Rachel Pollack
  • Chocco, Ernest Callenbach
  • (excerpt from) The New World, Frederick Turner
  • Rangriver Fell, Paul Park
  • Mary Margaret Road-Grade, Howard Waldrop
  • Part five: "Parables"
  • Looking Down, Carol Emshwiller
  • Newton's Sleep, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Return (story), Robinson Jeffers
  • Endnotes characterizing the purpose of each story in the anthology

    • Reception

    Publishers Weekly called it "a potent mixture of prose and poetry" that will "please not only science fiction aficionados but also those with interest in philosophy, archeology and environmental ethics".

    References

    Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias Wikipedia
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