ISLAND -Huxley
- ECOTOPIA Ð Callenbach
ALWAYS COMING HOME Ð U. LeGuin
The
Fifth Sacred Thing Ð Starhawk
ISLAND by Aldous Huxley, is his most positive utopian
novel about a So. sea island Pala, that is similar to Bali now? with its
pagan/Hindu/
Buddhist integrated art & ritual culture The
hero lands on Pala & is taken in by the natives & trained how to live
their way. However Pala is also threatened by the rich neighbor island
nation who want to develop its resources.
ECOTOPIA Õ75, & Ecotopia Emerging Ô80 by Ernest Callenbach,
Ecotopia also a futuristic No. Cal Eco-drama where women are mostly
leading their communities by concensus, similar to The 5th. Its a male
journalist diary & reports about the eco-freaks new nation, unknown to
Americans for 20 yrs. Ecotopia has separated from USA in 1980, within Ore. Wash
& No. Cal; thatÕs thrown out the U$ military, nuclear power, guns, taxes
& cars. Most of the radical changes of its 1980, havenÕt even happened in
real 1990s, except in small family ways, few newage businesses & spiritual
practices like: Earth First, eco-forestry, Permaculture & wholistic healing
movements now. Ecotopia Emerging is a more down home story of a energy
wizard girl who invents a solar devise to help Ecotopia gain local self reliance,
without the massive utility industries there. These are a rare pair of
books about a novel future of evolving people.
ALWAYS COMING HOME - by Ursula LeGuin
(Ô80s) is a post flood(sea level rise)lands centuries in the future in No.Cali.
In hi valley villages. Where they grow many tribal cultures that
invent their local traditions of song, theaters & rituals. Like The
5th, it contains many new details of future life there of challenges, poems
& celebrations.
The Fifth
Sacred Thing Ð Starhawk ÐEcofeminist novel
Of 2020s in Northern Cali to LA, culture war over water seeking south while young woman is learning her spirit Chi power to help her SF bay area folk in (Ecotopia?) defend from LA army invading the peaceful nature loving people. She is heroine of daring healing & encountering friends, lovers & foe over water about 2025