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Ecotopia- fells like home to me, 25. Juni 2003
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Ecotopia ist eine spannende und sehr reizvolle Vision, wie eine Zukunft in den vereinigten Staaten aussehen kann. Man kann diesen Traum von Harmonie und Symbiose zwischen Mensch und Natur aber auch gut und gerne als ein role model nehmen für eine allgemein bessere Zukunft, vollkommen gleichgültig wo auf dieser Erde. Die Charaktere sind menschlich und ihre Ängste und Bedürfnisse nachvollziehbar und es fällt leicht sich auf die Handlung einzulassen. Wer Spass am Lesen und an einer alternativen Weltgestaltung hat, darf dieses Buch um keinen Preis versäumen.Ich bin gespannt auf den Folgeband.
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Good, but w/o a lot of regular literary components, 2. Juli 1999
While I found this novel engaging, and hard to put down, there were many problems with the piece itself. One of the main criticisms that can be heard about this book is the lack of characterization. The protagonist is woefully under-defined. I almost felt as if his ecotopian lover was more interesting than he was. As well, many of the protagonist's friends in the novel are without development. Second, everything in the novel fell in to place far too easily. Everything bordered on a pleasant fantasy, instead of something that could actually happen. The idea is intriguing, and this novel certainly could be seen as a manifesto for a 'stable-state', the lack of realism turned me off. And finally, I was dissapointed in the climax and resolution of the work. I knew by about half-way through the book the exact outcome of the ending. All in all though, it was interesting. I would recommend it as a good read, but not without criticisms.
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The possibilities may be endless, 11. April 2000
This is both a wonderful story and a vision of a new improved America. Well, part of it is supposed to be improved, Ecotopia being a breakaway republic which decides to leave the bulk of mainland U.S.A. choking in its pollution and squabbling with foreigners. In fact, the thesis for Ecotopia's origin is that things are going so badly in middle America, that the once omnipresent state has no time to react to its own remote dissidents. With that, and a communications blackout strictly enforced in the northern Californian, Washington state and Oregon zone which forms the new independent state, Ecotopia goes its own way. What it does during the first years of its experimental nationhood, becomes subject matter for a reporter from the East who is allowed in to have a look-see. And what he sees blows his mind. Callenbach has taken all the roadblocks away from modern science and let them go for it. You want free solar energy - it's down this road; you want non-polluting technologies that work, they're over here. Suddenly liberated from the weight of autocratic state and industrial institutions, the new science that is intended to create a pollution-free society of responsible citizens devoted to living on the Earth, not off of it, takes off and starts providing the answers that are now being sought. A trifle idealistic you say? Not a bit of it. Callenbach pretends that he believes every word of it, so why shouldn't we! Yet the main point of Ecotopia, besides being, dare I say it, worthwhile fiction (!), is to ask that simple question: What if? What if indeed. This book will remain a classic of its kind and be referred to wonderingly in aeons to come, as one of the first attempts to nail down a possible alternative future for the monolithic U. S. of A. And what works for America...
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