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The Fifth Sacred Thing
''The Fifth Sacred Thing'' is a 1993 post-apocalyptic novel written by Starhawk. The title refers to the classical elements of fire, earth, air, and water, plus the fifth element, spirit, accessible when one has balanced the other four.
==Plot==
The novel describes a world set in the year 2048 after a catastrophe which has fractured the United States into several nations. The protagonists live in San Francisco and have evolved in the direction of Ecotopia, reverting to a sustainable economy, using wind power, local agriculture, and the like. San Francisco is presented as a mostly pagan city where the streets have been torn up for gardens and streams, no one starves or is homeless, and the city's defense council consists primarily of nine elderly women who "listen and dream". The novel describes "a utopia where women are leading societies but are doing so with the consent of men."〔Schönpflug, Karin, ''Feminism, Economics and Utopia: Time Travelling Through Paradigms'' (Oxon/London: Routledge, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-415-41784-6)), p. 22 (and perhaps see chap. 7) (author economist, Austrian Ministry of Finance, & lecturer, Univ. of Vienna) (author Schönpflug named Starhawk's work as "''The Fifth Element''" in original but perhaps intended "''The Fifth Sacred Thing''", per (Worldcat ), as accessed Nov. 18, 2011, as no work titled ''The Fifth Element'' by Starhawk is known, per (Worldcat ), as accessed Nov. 18, 2011).〕 To the south, though, an overtly-theocratic Christian fundamentalist nation has evolved and plans to wage war against the San Franciscans. The novel explores the events before and during the ensuing struggle between the two nations, pitting utopia and dystopia against each other.
The story is primarily told from the points of view of 98-year-old Maya, her nominal granddaughter Madrone, and her grandson Bird. Through these and other characters, the story explores many elements from ecofeminism and ecotopian fiction.
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