A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach&#8217;s <b>Ecotopia </b>is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> as the &#8220;newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,&#8221; Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future.<b><br><br></b>Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a &#8220;stable-state&#8221; 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: <i>New York Times-Post </i>reporter Will Weston.<br><br>Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he&#8217;s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia&#8217;s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient &#8220;mini-cities&#8221; 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.<br><i><br></i>