Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True. Thomas A. Easton, Judith Klein-Dial

Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True



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Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True Thomas A. Easton, Judith Klein-Dial ebook pdf
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. (A Herman Graf Book)
Language: English
Page: 336
ISBN: 1602399980, 9781602399983

Identity theft, computer viruses, performance-enhancing drugs, and space elevators are just some of the innovations found in this intriguing anthology. H.G. Wells's grim pre-WWI tale "The Land Ironclads" anticipates the use of tanks in warfare. Jeff Hecht's "Directed Energy" and Thomas Easton's "Matchmaker" offer whimsical uses for high-powered lasers and genetic engineering. Robert Scheckley's black comedy "The Prize of Peril" envisions a deadly precursor to reality TV. Vonda N. McIntyre's "Misprint" foresees a printer capable of creating new organs for transplant. The atomic weapon in Cleve Cartmill's 1944 story "Deadline" proved timely enough to worry the U.S. military. Teen and adult fans of hard SF will appreciate this look back at some of the genre's most insightful work.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. One naive view of sf is that it's trying to predict tomorrow's technology. Sf Grand Master Robert Silverberg's introduction suggests, however, that such prognostications are rarely particular and original. Gadgets are seldom correctly envisioned, and when they are, the writers are copping designs and details from engineers. Still, now and then, as the editors put it, “science fiction gets it right.” H. G. Wells' “The Land Ironclads” envisioned tanks and their deployment more than a decade before WWI. The most notorious sf prophecy, Cleve Cartmill's “Deadline,” had the FBI asking author and Astounding editor John W. Campbell how they came to know of the then-developing, top-secret A-bomb. Both tales appear here, along with stories forecasting reality TV, the Internet (with uncanny social prescience in Murray Leinster's “A Logic Named Joe”), identity theft, AIDS (though the engineered virus David Gerrold imagines causes sexual sterility, not collapsed immunity), and nine other developments, only two of them still on the drawing board. Curiously, prophetic accuracy and literary distinction don't much coexist. Fun book, anyhow. --Ray Olson

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