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SF: Inventing the Future

R. Duncan Appleford

First published 1972
Publisher Bellhaven House
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Garry C. Hamilton
Pages ix+227
Price C$3.75
ISBN 088774303X


• © 1972 No statement of edition or printing, no number line • "Cover design and illustrations by Garry C. Hamilton" on title page, one interior sketch is also signed • Book has four sections, three with stories in different themes and the fourth has essays, newspaper items [without author credit in most cases, just the source is given] • Printed and bound in Canada • There is no price in/on the book, obtained from AMICUS

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Page Title Author(s) Type
2 Science Fiction as Myth Reinterpreted R. Duncan Appleford Essay
5 Icarus and Daedalus Henrik Altov Short Story
12 Icarus Allsorts Roger McGough Poem
14 The Sentinel Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
24 History Lesson Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
33 The Sighting Paul Green Poem
38 Interpretations (Science Fiction as Myth Reinterpreted) R. Duncan Appleford Essay
42 Idea and Creative Response R. Duncan Appleford Essay
45 The Walls Keith Laumer Short Story
58 Placement Test Keith Laumer Novelette
86 Origin Unknown R. Duncan Appleford Short Story
95 Progression of the Species Brian Aldiss Poem
97 Interpretations (Idea and Creative Response) R. Duncan Appleford Essay
100 Touchstones R. Duncan Appleford Essay
103 Who Can Replace a Man? Brian Aldiss Short Story
113 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Novelette
141 The Impossible Man J. G. Ballard Short Story
159 The Old Man Lay Down Sonya Dorman Poem
160 The Military Hospital Phyllis Gotlieb Short Story
175 Interpretations (Touchstones) R. Duncan Appleford Essay
178 Non-Fiction Probes R. Duncan Appleford Essay
180 At the Interface: Technology and Mysticism Arthur C. Clarke & Alan Watts Essay
187 Is There Life On Mars—Or Beyond Time, Inc. Essay
189 Moonscapes uncredited Essay
190 The Science Fiction Horror Movie Pocket Computer Gahan Wilson Short Story
193 Seeing Eye Phyllis Gotlieb Poem
194 The Future How? G. B. Leonard Essay
195 What Are People For? G. B. Leonard Essay
196 Metropolis 2025—Man's Future Environment A. P. Bernhart Essay
199 The Future of Death Robert Fulford Essay
202 Technology and the Polity Eric Kierans Essay
204 Cities on the Sea John Lear Essay
207 A Sociologist Foresees the Eclipse of Romantic Love In Marriage Sidney Katz Essay
210 Probing the Brain Newsweek Essay
212 Baby Experiments May Cause Tragedy Scientist Warns Toronto Star Essay
213 Cloning: One Hundred Einsteins or One Hundred Hitlers? John Southin Essay
216 Secon 4 Janis Rappaport Poem
218 Reactions (Non-Fiction Probes) R. Duncan Appleford Essay
186.1 Space Expert Predicts Moon Baby By 2000 Toronto Star Essay
186.2 U. S. Biologist Predicts Stimulation of Brain Toronto Star Essay
ix Introduction (SF: Inventing the Future) R. Duncan Appleford Essay