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ISBN 0-86104-026-0 (UK hbk),,, 0-86104-019-8 (UK pbk)
novel, science fiction, utopia, ecology, environment, counterculture
California, 1999. Alternatively titled: Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston . This novel set in 1999 was eventually followed by a 'prequel' set in 1986, Ecotopia Emerging .
"It is 1999 and Wil Weston, top investigative journalist, is the first American to visit the breakaway state of Ecotopia, formerly west coast America.
"For decades writers have presented a vision of the future as tyrannical, brutish and doomed but Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia projects a future that could work -- socially, politically and ecologically.
"Reconstruction of social and personal relations from the roots up is what Ecotopia is all about. Through Westopn's insights and doubts, his relationship with Marissa, and even his repugnance and horror at some of the things he sees, Ernest Callenbach conveys a powerful indictment of his native America. In a blending of socialist and anarchist ideas he creates the most dramatic vision of a possible future since William Morris's News from Nowhere ." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1978]
(July 1994, anthology, science fiction...Tor, New York, US, hbk... ecotopias)
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