Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

First edition
Editor	Kim Stanley Robinson
Cover artist	Carol Russo
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1994 (Tor Books)
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[]

• 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
  • , Pat Murphy
  • , R. A. Lafferty
• Part two: "Denial of the body"
  • , Garry Kilworth
• Part three: "But what were they really like?"
  • , Robert Silverberg
• Part four: "And might we ever be like that again?"
  • , Gene Wolfe
  • , Rachel Pollack
  • , Ernest Callenbach
  • (excerpt from) The New World, Frederick Turner
  • , Paul Park
  • , Howard Waldrop
• Part five: "Parables"
  • Looking Down, Carol Emshwiller
  • , Ursula K. Le Guin
  • , 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".^[1]

See also[]

• Apocalyptic science fiction
• Science fiction

References[]

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