TY - ABST T1 - ["E-Mails from the Future"] Y1 - 2007 ED - Sarah Bunker ED - Chris Coates ED - Jonathan How KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.

JF - Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009 PB - Diggers and Dreamers Publications+ CY - London U5 -

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