Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe? Imagining California as an ecological utopia

In this article, I explore four California-based eco-utopias: The Earth Abides (George Stewart, 1949), Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach, 1975), Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1990), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992). All four novels were written during, and deeply informed by, the Cold War (Alt...

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Main Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioOne 2018-10-01
Series:Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
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Online Access:https://www.elementascience.org/articles/320