Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
 First edition | |
| Editor | Kim Stanley Robinson |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Carol Russo |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1994 (Tor Books) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 978-0-312-85474-4 |
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
[edit]- 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, Robinson Jeffers
- Endnotes characterizing the purpose of each story in the anthology
Reception
[edit]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".[1]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias". Publishers Weekly. 1994-07-04. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
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