In the early 1970s, Paul Williams withdrew into a tiny wilderness commune on the coast of British Columbia, attempting to build a life beyond wage labour, consumer culture and the pressures of everyday America. 

Apple Bay records what followed: the physical work of living off the land, experiments with drugs and consciousness, romantic entanglements, communal tensions and the slow collision between utopian conviction and other people. Williams was the founder of the pioneering rock magazine Crawdaddy! and later, influenced the science fiction world so much, he served as both Philip K. Dick's and Theodore Sturgeon's editor and eventual literary executor.

He called this a sequel to Das Energi: philosophy forced out of abstraction and made to survive weather, hunger, sex and shared domestic space. Written with restless candour, it is part countercultural memoir, part ecological manifesto and part autopsy of the hippie dream. An unusually intimate document of the point where refusing society becomes the difficult business of inventing another one.

Very scarce first edition, first printing. Warner Books, 1976. Hardback. Very good condition, with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the covers.