Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
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Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, republishes notable short works of utopian fiction and dystopian fiction, incorporating elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism.
[edit] 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 (novel), 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
[edit] Release details
- Tor Books, 1994, ISBN 0-312-86350-0 (paperback)
