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{{quote| ''Imagine a future that works!''<br />}}
Authored by Ernest Callenbach in 1975 and set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
Authored by Ernest Callenbach in 1975 and set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].


We are in the year [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|1999]]. Since 1980, Ecotopia has been isolated, Chinese fashion. Now, finally, an official visitor is admitted. He is [[Alliterative Name|Will Weston]], [[Intrepid Reporter|crack investigative reporter]]. Like a modern [[Gullivers Travels|Gulliver]], Will is sometimes horrified, sometimes overwhelmed by strange practices and sensual encounters. He discovers a nation which, in lucky circumstances, has taken charge of its own biological destiny. As Will becomes deeply involved with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, [[The Spartan Way|ritual war games]] and a [[Lady Land|female-dominated]] "stable-state" government, his confusion of values intensifies and reaches a startling climax. [[Tagline|The novel of your future]].
We are in the year [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|1999]]. Since 1980, '''Ecotopia''' has been isolated, Chinese fashion. Now, finally, an official visitor is admitted. He is [[Alliterative Name|Will Weston]], [[Intrepid Reporter|crack investigative reporter]]. Like a modern [[Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver]], Will is sometimes horrified, sometimes overwhelmed by strange practices and sensual encounters. He discovers a nation which, in lucky circumstances, has taken charge of its own biological destiny. As Will becomes deeply involved with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, [[The Spartan Way|ritual war games]] and a [[Lady Land|female-dominated]] "stable-state" government, his confusion of values intensifies and reaches a startling climax. [[Tagline|The novel of your future]].


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* [[Anti-Air]]: The missiles the Ecotopians used to take down attacking U.S. helicopters.
=== This novel includes examples of: ===
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* [[Anti Air]]: The missiles the Ecotopians used to take down attacking U.S. helicopters.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Female dominated hippie-esque society, [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]], mysticist-erotic rituals.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Female dominated hippie-esque society, [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]], mysticist-erotic rituals.
* [[Author Tract]]
* [[Author Tract]]
* [[Blood Sport]]: Of the "ritual war game" variety.
* [[Blood Sport]]: Of the "ritual war game" variety.
* [[Cowboy]]: Working cowboys and [[Cattle Drive|cattle drives]] have made a comeback for beef production in Ecotopia.
* [[Cowboy]]: Working cowboys and [[Cattle Drive|cattle drives]] have made a comeback for beef production in Ecotopia.
* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: The ruling party in Ecotopia is actually called the Survivalist Party, although they're based more on [[New Age Retro Hippie|back-to-the-land communal hippies]] (which is what people in [[The Seventies]] thought of when they heard the word "survivalist") than the [[Crazy Prepared|heavily armed]] [[Right Wing Militia Fanatic|Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] commonly associated with the term today.
* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: The ruling party in Ecotopia is actually called the Survivalist Party, although they're based more on [[New Age Retro Hippie|back-to-the-land communal hippies]] (which is what people in [[The Seventies]] thought of when they heard the word "survivalist") than the [[Crazy Prepared|heavily armed]] [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic|Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] commonly associated with the term today.
* [[Divided States of America]]: Ecotopia is formed from all of the West Coast minus Southern [[California]], with its capital at [[San Francisco]].
* [[Divided States of America]]: Ecotopia is formed from all of the West Coast minus Southern [[California]], with its capital at [[San Francisco]].
* [[Eagle Land]]: Flavor #2 all the way. There's a reference to an ongoing war in Brazil, and to annual war dead numbering around 5,000.
* [[Eagle Land]]: Flavor #2 all the way. There's a reference to an ongoing war in Brazil, and to annual war dead numbering around 5,000.
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* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Northern California supplies most of the water that is used by Southern California. Ecotopia, which includes all of Northern California, no longer exports water or other resources. Draw your own conclusions.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Northern California supplies most of the water that is used by Southern California. Ecotopia, which includes all of Northern California, no longer exports water or other resources. Draw your own conclusions.
** To say nothing of the vast food resources produced by California's Central Valley...
** To say nothing of the vast food resources produced by California's Central Valley...
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] / [[Screw You Elves]]: As much as the book is built around its [[Green Aesop]], [[Author Avatar|Will]] is still not above taking [[Take That|pot shots]] at the elf-like smugness of Ecotopia's inhabitants.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] / [[Screw You, Elves]]: As much as the book is built around its [[Green Aesop]], [[Author Avatar|Will]] is still not above taking [[Take That|pot shots]] at the elf-like smugness of Ecotopia's inhabitants.
* [[The Apartheid Era]]: It's implied that South Africa is still under an apartheid government, judging by reference to revolutionaries there.
* [[The Apartheid Era]]: It's implied that South Africa is still under an apartheid government, judging by reference to revolutionaries there.
* [[The Great Politics Mess Up]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]
* [[Utopia]]: Of course.
* [[Utopia]]: Of course.


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[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]
[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]
[[Category:Ecotopia]]
[[Category:Ecotopia]]
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Latest revision as of 02:20, 3 March 2018

Imagine a future that works!

Authored by Ernest Callenbach in 1975 and set Twenty Minutes Into the Future.

We are in the year 1999. Since 1980, Ecotopia has been isolated, Chinese fashion. Now, finally, an official visitor is admitted. He is Will Weston, crack investigative reporter. Like a modern Gulliver, Will is sometimes horrified, sometimes overwhelmed by strange practices and sensual encounters. He discovers a nation which, in lucky circumstances, has taken charge of its own biological destiny. As Will becomes deeply involved with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, ritual war games and a female-dominated "stable-state" government, his confusion of values intensifies and reaches a startling climax. The novel of your future.

Tropes used in Ecotopia include:
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