A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbachs Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell, Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future.

Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a stable-state ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.

Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, hes alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopias earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient mini-cities to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

Ecotopia was founded when the Pacific Northwest seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem, balancing human needs and the environment. Isolated for twenty years, Ecotopia's first officially sanctioned American visitor is New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. This prophetic novel alternates between Weston's published reports and his private journal. Weston is alternately impressed and unsettled by Ecotopia's woman-dominated government and Earth-friendly agenda. Then he meets an Ecotopian woman and plunges into a relationship that forces him to choose between two worlds. 192 pp.