A Short History of the Future
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ISBN: 0226869024 / Publisher: University of Chicago Press, December 1992
Wagar (history, SUNY Binghamton) combines fiction and scholarship to present a scenario of 1995-2100. The second edition is updated to incorporate worldwide political events that occurred just after the book was first published in 1989. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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A dazzling and imaginative combination of fiction and scholarship, this speculative history of the future is a memoir of postmodern times. This second edition shows how the events of 1989 and their aftermath reinforce Wagar's predictions of the future. "A breathtaking future history in the manner of Wells and Stapledon, unnerving in its mixture of facts, fiction, and personal perspectives."—George Zebrowski, New York Review of Science Fiction
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