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 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 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".
See also
Apocalyptic science fiction
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