Future Primitive:Ecotopias (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (Jul 21 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312854749
ISBN-13: 978-0312854744
Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

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Kim Stanley Robinson has long been known for his excellent science fiction novels such as Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars. Here he turns his hand toward editing, with a collection of stories by writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Pat Murphy, and Terry Bisson. These are stories of a future where "wet" technology has replaced "hard": silicon chips have given way to DNA strands, and the industrial high tech has been subsumed by environmental high tech. While all of these fine stories have been printed elsewhere, collected together they comprise a formidable and fascinating look at a future full of ectopias. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robinson has compiled a potent mixture of prose and poetry to depict futures that reject the popular theory of a machine existence, but instead illustrate life in a more primitive state. Some stories take place in a time very close to our own, such as "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson, where bears learn to build fires and come out of hibernation, discovering that they too can use the basic elements needed for survival. Other fascinating stories exist in a more distant setting and include Gary Kilworth's "Hogfoot and Bird-Hands," the disturbing tale of a lonely woman who, by using a common surgical approach, has pets made from her own body parts. A future in the Cro-Magnon period is explored in Robert Silverberg's "House of Bones," the story of a scientist trapped forever in the past he was sent to study. The most startling in its combination of a technological future with the mysteries of the natural world is "Newton's Sleep" by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a space colony finds that its "perfect world" has been invaded by the ghosts of earth. Broad in its appeal, this fine collection should please not only science fiction aficionados but also those with interest in philosophy, archeology and environmental ethics.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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3.0 out of 5 stars sort of excellent, Mar 27 2000

By	Njihia Mbitiru (Cullowhee, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (Paperback)

By the far the two best stories in this collection are Terry Bisson's "Bears Discover Fire" and Pat Murphy's powerful and eloquently written "In the Abode of Snows." After that, the other stories didn't seem to stir me quite as much .They were well written yes, but still... The extensive reading list at the end of the book is especially helpful to those interested in the ideas behind the variuos themes in the story. For that and the 2 stories, i gave it the above score.

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