![]() ![]() ![]() Ralph Nader, who later endorsed the book in a blurb, remarked: "It came out at just the right time in terms of the environmental movement. After an excerpt in Harper's Weekly was favourably received, Bantam decided to publish the next edition. Somebody said the ecology trend was over" (quoted in the NYT). Some said it didn't have enough sex and violence, or that they couldn't tell if it were a novel or a tract. It was self-published in an initial run of 2,500 copies, with Callenbach remembering that "it was rejected by every significant publisher in New York. Ecotopia, a cult favourite and one of the first ecological utopias ever written, was highly influential on 1970s counterculture and the sustainability movement.Ī widely admired futuristic novel by the American film scholar and environmentalist Ernest "Chick" Callenbach (1929-2012), Ecotopia was strangely prescient and remarkably rational in its predictions of the ways in which toxic living could threaten health and sustainability. First edition, first printing, inscribed in red ink on the initial blank, "For Tee, with love, Chick". ![]()
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