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Introduction (Science Fiction: The Future)
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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| 7 |
First Perspectives
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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| 9 |
Advice to a Prophet
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Richard Wilbur
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Poem
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| 11 |
No Way Out, No Way Back
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Time Magazine
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Essay
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| 14 |
The Human Race Has, Maybe, Thirty-Five Years Left
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David Lyle
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Essay
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| 34 |
Crab-Apple Crisis
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George MacBeth
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Short Story
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| 42 |
Earth's Holocaust
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Short Story
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| 59 |
Alternative Futures: The Present as Future
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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| 61 |
Poem Rocket
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Allen Ginsberg
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Poem
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| 64 |
The Country of the Blind
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H. G. Wells
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Novelette
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| 84 |
Jachid and Jachidah
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Short Story
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| 91 |
They
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Short Story
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| 104 |
The Artist
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Kenneth Koch
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Poem
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| 112 |
The Balloon
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Donald Barthelme
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Short Story
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| 117 |
The Future
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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| 121 |
To the Chicago Abyss
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Ray Bradbury
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Short Story
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| 130 |
Light of Other Days
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Bob Shaw
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Short Story
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| 137 |
Harrison Bergeron
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Short Story
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| 143 |
The Green Hills of Earth
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Short Story
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| 153 |
Tithonus
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D. M. Thomas
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Poem
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| 158 |
The Machine Stops
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E. M. Forster
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Novelette
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| 184 |
A Rose for Ecclesiastes
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Roger Zelazny
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Novelette
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| 215 |
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
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Harlan Ellison
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Short Story
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| 225 |
Day Million
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Frederik Pohl
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Short Story
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| 230 |
History Lesson
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Short Story
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| 238 |
From The Time Machine (excerpt)
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H. G. Wells
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Short Fiction
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| 243 |
Theories
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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| 245 |
Starting Points
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Kingsley Amis
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Essay
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| 263 |
Social Science Fiction
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Isaac Asimov
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Essay
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| 291 |
Science Fiction, Morals, and Religion
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Gerald Heard
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Essay
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| 307 |
The Boredom of Fantasy
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Arthur Koestler
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Essay
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| 312 |
The Imagination of Disaster
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Susan Sontag
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Essay
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| 325 |
The Future of Prediction
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John P. Sisk
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Essay
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| 334 |
Topics of Writing and Research (Science Fiction: The Future)
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uncredited
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Essay
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| 339 |
Suggestions for Further Reading (Science Fiction: The Future)
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uncredited
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Essay
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| ix |
Preface (Science Fiction: The Future)
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Dick Allen
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Essay
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