About this title: This is the 30th Anniversary edition of the classic environmental novel about a future in which a socially and ecologically responsible state is created in the West. The story is told by a reporter who is the first media vistor from the United States allowed.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780553104899ISBN:0553104896
Description: Good. This is an ex library copy. the pages in this book are yellowed Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Edition: second printing, Bantam paperback
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, NY
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780553104899ISBN:0553104896
Description: Good Plus. Solid reading copy with edgewear and mild browning to pages. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 167 pp. Modest wear to edges and corners, binding a bit cocked with light creasing. Paperback original, 2nd ptg. (Feb. 1975). read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Square solid copy with two small corner creases on front cover and covers show light wear from rubbing. A novel based on a future (1999) ecologically harmonious society on the west coast of the United States. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Heyday Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780960432011ISBN:0960432019
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Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780553104899ISBN:0553104896
Description: Very Good. 213 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some faint creasing on the spine; not store stamped. Scans are available for all books. read more
Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780553104899ISBN:0553104896
Description: Very Good. 213 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine and a small scuff mark on the back cover; not store stamped. Scans are available for all books. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books
Date Published: 1975-06-01
ISBN-13:9780960432011ISBN:0960432019
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780960432011. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. edge and corner wear to wrappers, spine is creased; interior is clean and solid. 170 p. An inscription from author is on the blank front free endpaper. read more
"Read most of this one a while ago, and, despite being a lifelong environmentalist, I just couldn't finish it (and I almost always finish books). I'd be tempted to give it fewer stars if it were fresh in my memory, but I want to be fair.
I'd be interested in a reread now that I'm more versed in environmental studies and feminism, but I can't muster the enthusiasm to pick it back up. One reviewer reminded us that it was written in the 1970s and should be read with that in mind, but I have a hard time reading oppressive writings from any time period.
The premise really excited me, but the narrative just didn't deliver."
"This is about how the West Coast, that bastion of enlightenment, manages to break away from the rest of the Union. Callenbach was apparently as ignorant of history as Governor Rick Perry.
Ah, but that isn't the intentional/unintentional irony. It's that I couldn't be sure if Ecotopia was supposed to be a Utopia or a Dystopia. I think the former, and to me that was the irony. For this ecologically perfect community of free hot tub love is the heavy hand of the State. Those who didn't fit into this community were like the residents of Beta 2 who were "not of the body." Callenbach is apparently unaware of the groupthink involved in creating such a culture. This is a dystopia with a pretty face, like Walden 2 or Brave New World."
"Okay, so it's certainly not a great book, but it has that same appeal as a B-movie.
Imagine that Northern California, Oregon and Washington secede from the union to create their own country... Ecotopia. A land full of hippies, activists, powerful women, and people who recycle.
This book, written from the fictional perspective of a New York Times reporter, visiting this land as the first American on Ecotopian soil since the secession 20 years ago, reads partially like a collection of articles, and partially like a romance novel. Some of the supposed future hits the nail right on the head (video disks, picture phones, ear pieces one can use for communication, RECYCLING), but some of it is so ridiculous it's funny."
"I loved this book if only for the idea that CA, OR and WA kick out all of the planet killing types, secede from the Union and become our own "green" nation. In a very short time we clean up our water and air, get off the grid, get rid of our cars, go vegan, ... My only gripe with this book is that it tends to drag. It is written in two parts: the notebooks, which are the written accounts, are more clinical than the reports, which are more of a first-hand, "Alice in Wonderland" view of everything. I found myself skipping the notebooks and just reading the reports (or was it the other way around? You'll figure it out)."
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