Ecotopia : the notebooks and reports of William Weston / Ernest Callenbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callenbach, Ernest, author.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Fiction.

Human ecology.

Conservation of natural resources.

Nature conservation.

Environmentalism--Fiction.

Environmentalism.

Environmentalists--Fiction.

Environmentalists.

Nature conservation--Fiction.

Conservation of natural resources--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

Bantam edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [1977]

Summary:

Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a ʺstable-stateʺ ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopiaʼs strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, mini-cities that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Westonʼs conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling climax.

Notes:

Bantam edition / October 1977

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 250524

ISBN:

0553104896

9780553104899

OCLC:

961693494

Publisher Number:

10489-6 Bantam Book