Ernest Callenbach

novel, science fiction, utopia, ecology, environment, counterculture

This novel set in 1986 was the 'prequel' to Ecotopia .

"The '80s have propelled America toward economic and ecological suicide; the military-industrial elite has come to power. The rightward drift has resulted in steep rises in poverty, crime and social tension. Governmental protections for the environment and working public have been destroyed. Now, in 1986 in the Pacific Northwest, the Revolution has begun. A new political party forms on the West Coast, dedicated to shaping its own biological destiny. Lou Swift, a brilliant science student, discovers a new way to tap solar energy. Her amazing invention, if allowed into public domain, would bring cheap, nonpolluting electricity to millions of homes. But utility executives war against it. For this progressive device not only threatens their profiteering, it heralds the birth of a new nation." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1982]

• Biograph -- Ernest Callenbach

• Books by Ernest Callenbach

• Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias edited by Kim Stanley Robinson
  (July 1994, anthology, science fiction...Tor, New York, US, hbk... ecotopias)

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