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Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias, Tor Books, 1994, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, republishes notable short works of utopian fiction and dystopian fiction , incorporating elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism.

Complete 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
In the Abode of the Snows , Pat Murphy
Boomer Flats , R. A. Lafferty

Part two: "Denial of the body"

Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands , Gary 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
(excerpt from) The New World (novel) , 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 GuinUrsula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. While she has written novels, poetry, childen's books, and essays, she is best known for her science fiction and fantasy, which she has written in the form of novels and short stories.
Return (story) , Robinson JeffersJohn Robinson Jeffers ( January 10, 1887- January 20, 1962) was an American poet who, after extensive travel in his youth, spent most of his life in Carmel, California, USA in a home for his family, which was a stone tower he built with his own hands.

Endnotes characterizing the purpose of each story in the anthologyAn anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. The term is also applied to television series featuring a variety of different Further Reading, on historical origins, scientific considerations, philosophical considerations, 'what is to be done', 'some wild and human places', and other science fictionScience fiction generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals. There are, perhaps, exceptions to (or at least, some very unusual examples of)

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