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Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

10 best books like Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (Kim Stanley Robinson): Ecotopia Emerging, Mosses from an Old Manse, White Egrets, Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder, Thirst, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Trampoline: An Anthology, Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes, A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

Ecotopia Emerging
AuthorErnest Callenbach
ISBN0960432035
Fiction. This prequel to ECOTOPIA is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, habitable environment. Its heroine is a brash and brilliant high school student who invents a better photovoltaic cell. People who also...
Mosses from an Old Manse
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0812966058
Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s...
White Egrets
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374289298
A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career--the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the...
Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0486432017
Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote:...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
AuthorRuss Kick
ISBN1609803809
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
Trampoline: An Anthology
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520046
Hard to write a review of a collection of stories from different authors, as there's such a difference in quality. The longer stories tended to be the weakest; I couldn't even finish Jackson's insufferable, interminable "Crowd of Bone", and "Insect Dreams" was a slog, despite a good premise and setting....
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
AuthorMark Crick
ISBN0151012830
I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was...
A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish
AuthorGeorge Saunders
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
AuthorMike Ashley
Anomalies (2001) by Gregory Benford 4/5
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (2003) by Paul Di Filippo 5/5
Crucifixion Variations (1998) by Lawrence Person 4/5
The Pacific Mystery by (2006) Stephen Baxter 4.5.5
Flowers from Alice (2003) by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow 3/5
Merlin's...
Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction
AuthorJetse de Vries
ISBN1906735670
Some of the world's most talented SF writers collected to throw light on a brighter future.

Shine: a collection of gems that throw light on a brighter future. Some of the world's most talented SF writers (including Alastair Reynolds, Kay Keyon and Jason Stoddard) show how things can change...
A Free Man
AuthorMichel Basilières
ISBN1770412336
An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel

A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the...
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0679776249
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
This Shape We're In
AuthorJonathan Lethem
ISBN0970335520
The novella is about a former General with a drinking problem sent by his shrewish wife to rescue their son from chanting as a cultist for something called the Third Eye. Oh yes, and they're all microscopic humanish creatures living inside a horse. So the general travels to the eye where his son is and along...
The Cheat Code for God Mode
AuthorAndy de Fonseca
ISBN1621051269
In a world where humanoid bulls patrol the street, wormholes and portals make up children's playgrounds, and flying turtles produce the most delicious bacon, Margy Plum and Victor Vance are quite content with playing old school video games and designing 8-bit chickens. When they find a cheat code...
Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation
AuthorAvi
ISBN0152057900
Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is uncovered--all within this eclectic collection from master storyteller Avi. By turns chilling, ethereal, and surreal, these thought-provoking tales...
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs
AuthorClarke Snell
ISBN1579905323
Clarke Snell and Timothy L. Callahan, whose popular Good House Book helped environmentally-minded readers create an earth-friendly home, have returned with a photo-packed, amazingly complete, start-to-finish guide to "green" housebuilding.

This absolutely groundbreaking manual...
Meeting Infinity
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1781083800
Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change...
Horse, Flower, Bird
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN1566892473
Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection takes readers back to the age-old pleasures of classic fairy tales and makes them new. Their haunting lessons are an evocative reminder that cracking open the door to the imagination is no mere child's play, that delight and tragedy lurk in every corner,...
Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now
AuthorCory Doctorow
ISBN1600103359
Writer and BoingBoing.net co-editor Cory Doctorow has won acclaim for his science-fiction writing as well as his Creative Commons presentation of his material. Now, IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone stories adapted from Doctorow's work, each featuring cover art by some of comics'...
The Ecopoetry Anthology
AuthorAnn Fisher-wirth
ISBN1595341463
Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing...
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener
AuthorJohn Seymour
ISBN1405321334
When Seymour sets out to write a book about self-sufficiency in the home garden he leaves no stone un-turned. I would recommend this book for someone with a foundation in gardening although he does address the basics such as soil structure, plot layouts and compost creation. The book is straight-forward...
Borderlands 2
AuthorThomas F. Monteleone
ISBN1565041089
I was lucky enough to find this book in a little out of the way book store and boy am I happy that I found it.
The stories are not just the run of the mill horror stories with grue and violence.I would actually classify most of the stories as literary horror.It is obvious that the editors looked far and wide...
The Fifth Science
AuthorExurb1a
The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out into the galaxy: warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone...
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