Raise a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise an udder

[purplerabbits]

I am looking for a genre of fiction that I don't know if it exists. Something to do with self-sufficiency, building your own houses, living off the land. I know of (but don't own any) science fiction that's like settlers on a new planet, but even that tends to have another plot, not just be about how they did it. If I could find something like that I think it would give me the same pleasure as I got from Coral Island as a kid...

Also I need to own some Gram Rabbit, but that's by the by...

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[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Little House on the Prairie? And all the others by LIW.

Also Swiss Family Robinson?

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to suggest SFR. Big tree-houses! I mean, really! Truly inspirational.

I don't think I ever read it, but I saw pictures.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Heinlein's "Farmer In The Sky" is very much like what you're looking for.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Series?

Ray Bradbury's "Dark they were and golden eyed"

I also third or whatever Swiss Family Robinson.

[barakta]

I'd like some of those von-neumann machines out of the Mars series, that could reproduce themselves and do a task. Although I'm sure they'd just have tried to take over instead of the Earthers!

[random-redhead.livejournal.com]

errrr, possibly Lillian Beckwith, its not exactly self sufficiency but it is crofting in (I think, can't remember) the Outer Hebrides, might be a bit cutesy and talking about the folk, but there is a good bit of life's daily grind and loving the scenery.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

It's more autobiographical than fictional, but I recall Ring of Bright Water having some interesting comments about a very pared-down, self-sufficient lifestyle. They were probably more about the inner experience than about the how-to, though.