Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

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.

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

Release details

• Tor Books, 1994, ISBN 0-312-86350-0 (paperback)

See also

• Apocalyptic science fiction
• Science fiction