Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (original) (raw)

Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias, Tor Books, 1994, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, republishes notable short works of utopian fiction and dystopian fiction, incorporating elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism.

Complete 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, Gary 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 anthologyFurther Reading, on historical origins, scientific considerations, philosophical considerations, 'what is to be done', 'some wild and human places', and other science fiction