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Cover of The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction

The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction

Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander

First published 1976
Publisher Fawcett Crest
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Larry Kresek
Pages 304
Price $1.95
ISBN 0449228924

  • "July 1976"
  • First printing by number line 1—10
  • The artist is not credited, the artwork is plainly signed
  • Only one section, III, is without a titled essay for the section. Two stories have essays titled the same as the story, but many stories do NOT have individual essays directly relevant to them. The essays are relevant to the subject essays, not always to the stories. The Section III title header is without page number in ToC, all others have them.
  • New York A.D. 2660 is NOT listed as an excerpt, but "as part of the novel Ralph 124C41"
  • Printed in the US

Year Reviewer Publication
1977 Susan Wood Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Introduction: Why the City? Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
15 Of Dreams and Nightmares: Visions of the City Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
18 The City as a Way of Life: New York A.D. 2660 Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
19 New York A.D. 2660 (excerpt) Hugo Gernsback Short Fiction
32 Jesting Pilot Joseph Olander & Martin Harry Greenberg & Ralph Clem Essay
33 Jesting Pilot Henry Kuttner Short Story
46 Chicago Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
47 Chicago Thomas F. Monteleone Short Story
62 Utopian Visions: Street of Drams, Feet of Clay Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
63 Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay Robert Sheckley Short Story
78 Dystopian Visions: The Vanishing American Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
79 The Vanishing American Charles Beaumont Short Story
90 Yesterday's Dreams, Today's Problems, Tomorrow's Nightmares? Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
92 The Competition for Space Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
94 Billennium J. G. Ballard Short Story
109 Total Environment Brian W. Aldiss Novelette
151 Future Ghetto: Race and the City Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
155 Black Is Beautiful Robert Silverberg Short Story
169 In Dark Places Joe L. Hensley Short Story
178 Fouling the Nest: Pollution in the City Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
181 East Wind, West Wind Frank M. Robinson Novelette
208 Disposal Ron Goulart Short Story
216 Fear in the City: The Problem of Crime Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
218 The Undercity Dean R. Koontz Short Story
231 Rivers of Asphalt, Oceans of Concrete: Transportation Problems Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
233 Gas Mask James D. Houston Short Story
243 Traffic Problem William Earls Short Story
252 The Grass is Always Greener: The Flight to the Suburbs Ralph Clem & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph Olander Essay
254 Gantlet Richard E. Peck Short Story
266 City's End Mack Reynolds Novelette
282 The Slime Dwellers Scott Edelstein Short Story
289 A Happy Day in 2381 Robert Silverberg Short Story