(Probably Found) Please help ID this book -- it's a tough one!

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I read this short book about 30 years ago. As I recall, it is about an astronaut who lands onto earth in the future. Society is focused on being in harmony with nature, and has moved away from advanced technology, particularly nuclear technology. They have an awesome recycling capability. Society has given up on strict monogamy, and whenever someone wants to take a lover, they're allowed, and it's considered a breach of etiquette to get jealous or complain. One of the central issues is deciding what to do with his rocket ship -- as I remember, they want to dismantle it, so it can't be turned into a weapon. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. :)
 
Coming back to earth and finding it very, very, different is a common SF trope. But I like the sense of this one and will be interested if anyone can discover it.
 
Coming back to earth and finding it very, very, different is a common SF trope. But I like the sense of this one and will be interested if anyone can discover it.
It's 12 years since the person asked it so I don't think we'll ever know!
 
Wasn't there a sequel to "Against the Fall of Night" or "The City and the Stars" that had a bucolic civilization that had migrated out of The City? And didn't "Alvin" return from wandering the galaxy to be surprised by how things had changed?
 
Wasn't there a sequel to "Against the Fall of Night" or "The City and the Stars" that had a bucolic civilization that had migrated out of The City? And didn't "Alvin" return from wandering the galaxy to be surprised by how things had changed?
Really? I wasn’t aware of a sequel. Interested.
 
Against the Fall of Night and The City and the Stars are for the most part the same book in that Clarke wrote The City and the Stars later using a slightly different style and some hard learned skill in writing.
There is a sequel written by Gregory Benford Called Beyond the Fall of Night.[This book included Against the Fall of Night ahead of the Beyond the Fall of Night portion].



Sad to say I don't think any of these quite match the OP search.


Clifford Simak has a couple of novels like this.
The one I remember is
Choice of Gods
However that one has what appears like regressed civilization on Earth because many people simply vanished. though it has robot in the story

The Heritage of Stars
Has Society that disdains technology after space flight.

They just don't quite fit though.
 
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There's Return From the Stars by Stanislaw Lem, astronaut comes back to earth after 10 subjective and a hundred or so earth years. Society has changed but I don't know if it fully matches the query.
 

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