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A review by squidbag
Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future by Peter Porter, Isaac Asimov, John Harvey Wheeler, Ray Bradbury, Paul R. Ehrlich, Rod Serling, Alan E. Nourse, Arthur C. Clarke, Mike Evans, Alan L. Madsen, Kurt Vonnegut, E.M. Forster, Eugene Burdick, William Stafford, William Faulkner, Poul Anderson, Walter Van Tilberg Clark, Thomas M. Disch, Richard Brautigan
5.0
This was kind of a gem of a thing; a 1973 Scholastic edition book hanging around in our honor books section at the library; not in the greatest shape, so it was slated to be weeded (or really, just thrown away) and I snagged it and read it.
Asimov, Clarke, Serling, Bradbury, Poul Anderson, Vonnegut, Brautigan: poems and short stories and screenplays and a couple of actual news articles of the time, all of them about trying to predict the future, which for these authors lies somewhere between 1990 and 1999. It's dismal as hell, being written by Cold Warriors at the height of speculative fiction about where we were headed, and entertaining - views of the past from the more distant past are always fun.
Asimov, Clarke, Serling, Bradbury, Poul Anderson, Vonnegut, Brautigan: poems and short stories and screenplays and a couple of actual news articles of the time, all of them about trying to predict the future, which for these authors lies somewhere between 1990 and 1999. It's dismal as hell, being written by Cold Warriors at the height of speculative fiction about where we were headed, and entertaining - views of the past from the more distant past are always fun.