Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
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
- 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
- * 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 (story), Robinson Jeffers
- Endnotes characterizing the purpose of each story in the anthology