Books like 'Ecotopia'
Readers who enjoyed Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
contemporary sc-fi alternate history 20th century action / adventure violent-conflict north-america usa utopia dystopia
-
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 76 ratingsThey mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks...Categorized as:
classics dystopia literary-fiction technology university 20th-century action-adventure ai -
![Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang]()
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsTed Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF...Categorized as:
classics dystopia literary-fiction technology 20th-century 21st-century action-adventure adult -
![The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov]()
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsOne of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read.Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future...Categorized as:
classics dystopia 20th-century action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
![Replay by Ken Grimwood]()
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that... -
-
![Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg]()
Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to the land of Egalia, where gender roles are topsy-turvy as "wim" wield the power and "menwim" light the home fires...Categorized as:
classics dystopia literary-fiction politics social-commentary university utopia 20th-century -
![The Sphinx by Robert Doherty, Bob Mayer]()
The Sphinx by Robert Doherty, Bob Mayer
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor thousands of years it has harbored mankind's greatest secret. Now someone or something has found the key to... the Sphinx.No place is safe from alien infiltration. Not even top secret Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte know that better than anyone. Secrets have been revealed. Codes have been broken. A countdown has begun...Categorized as:
violent-conflict 20th-century action-adventure adult aliens alternate-history audiobook book -
![A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell]()
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz... -
![Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo, Tom Kratman]()
Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo, Tom Kratman
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe invaders are coming: the Posleen, a seemingly unstoppable horde who have conquered one star system after another, literally feeding on their conquests...Categorized as:
violent-conflict 20th-century action-adventure adult aliens alternate-history audiobook book -
![War in 2020: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by Ralph Peters]()
War in 2020: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by Ralph Peters
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDescribed as “the military counterpart of Orwell’s 1984, The War on 2020 is the breathtaking novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Red Army, Ralph Peters. Soviet Central Asia, 2020. A decaying Soviet Union is on the brink of disaster. Their only hope is American’s seventh cavalry. They’re plunging into the horrors of war in the new millennium...Categorized as:
dystopia politics violent-conflict 20th-century action-adventure adult alternate-history book -
![The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson]()
The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratings2047: for 60 years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. For the small community of San Onofre on the West Coast, life is a matter of survival: living simply on what the sea and land can provide, preserving what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications...Categorized as:
apocalyptic classics disaster dystopia pollution-climate-change post-apocalyptic solarpunk utopia -
![In the Courts of the Crimson Kings by S.M. Stirling]()
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the “universe next door” first introduced in S. M. Stirling’s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn’t suspect this until the twentieth century. Then American and Soviet probes landed on our sister worlds and found life—intelligent life, at that... -
![Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs]()
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhile young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch; the first of the trilogy with The Place of the Dead Roads and his final novel The Western Lands...Categorized as:
classics disaster dystopia literary-fiction politics revolution violent-conflict 20th-century -
![Planesrunner by Ian McDonald]()
Planesrunner by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallel earths.When Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer... -
![Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAccording to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience... -
-
![The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon]()
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsFor sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel...Categorized as:
classics dystopia literary-fiction politics 20th-century 21st-century action-adventure adult -
![Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein]()
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsHugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings... -
![Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins]()
Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 81 ratingsThis Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin... -
![Battle Royale by Koushun Takami]()
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsKoushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of 42 junior high school students are taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided with weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing... -
![V for Vendetta by Alan Moore]()
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 72 ratings"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd... -
![Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick]()
Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe "Mightiest" of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is back! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. One hundred percent pure bad-@$$. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission - and all the power she needs to make her own life a living hell... -
![The Compleat Terminal City by Dean Motter, Michael Lark]()
The Compleat Terminal City by Dean Motter, Michael Lark
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVisionary designer and comics creator Dean Motter (Mister X, Electropolis, Batman: Nine Lives) returns with the purest expression to date of his patented retro futurism! Terminal City is a place where transistor-tube robots rub elbows with old-time gangsters, where bright, shiny technologies cast deep noir shadows...Categorized as:
dystopia 20th-century action-adventure adult alternate-history comics contemporary dark-horse
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
