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Future Primitive Further Reading
A list of books compiled by Kim Stanley Robinson as further reading after the anthology Future Primitive.
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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The Wilderness Reader
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My First Summer in the Sierra
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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The Drowned World
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Ecotopia
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And Chaos Died
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Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
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Birdbrain
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Through the Edge: Part I
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Solaris
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The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization
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Riddley Walker
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John Muir-To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863 to 1875
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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4.31 avg rating — 35,470 ratings
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 638 ratings
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Collected Works of John Muir
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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4.29 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Stone Age Economics
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3.92 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
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3.97 avg rating — 19,331 ratings
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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4.10 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
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4.45 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,185 ratings
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Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty
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Paul A. Harrison (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
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Betsy Hartmann (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air (Dover Books on Earth Sciences)
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
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In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (SUNY Series in Philosophy)
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Preface to Economic Democracy (Volume 28) (Quantum Books)
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3.69 avg rating — 195 ratings
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For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
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4.17 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
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3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism
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3.84 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Andre Gorz: A Critical Introduction
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology
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3.61 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
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Lewis Hyde (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,157 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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Progress as if survival mattered: A handbook for a conserver society
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Selected Poetry
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The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance
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4.21 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology
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4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Human Scale
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Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science
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Tempest, Flute and Oz: Essays on the Future
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Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
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The Earth First! Reader: Ten Years of Radical Environmentalism
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
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4.03 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
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Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth
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Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
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3.80 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez
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The Practice of the Wild
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The Land of Little Rain
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The Worst Journey in the World
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Everest: The West Ridge
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Arctic Dreams
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The Snow Leopard
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The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France
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Songs of the North
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The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica
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Everest: A Mountaineering History
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Hold the Heights: The Foundations of Mountaineering
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Far Horizons: Adventure Travel for All!
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The Desert
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Helliconia
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Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1)
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Helliconia Winter (Helliconia, #3)
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Helliconia Summer (Helliconia, #2)
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Shadow Hunter
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The Crystal World
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The Drought
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The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
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Timescape
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Beyond Infinity
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Against Infinity (Jupiter Project #2)
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Bears Discover Fire
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Fire on the Mountain
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Earth
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Stand on Zanzibar
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The Sheep Look Up
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Dream's Edge
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
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Dhalgren
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The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories
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Carmen Dog
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Sarah Canary
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Artificial Things
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Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
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Lavondyss (Mythago Wood, #2)
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Floating Worlds
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Divine Endurance (The Last Days of Ranaganar, #1)
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Look into the Sun
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Mr. Boy
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Meeting in Infinity
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Good News from Outer Space
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