Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium

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Summary: With an engaging diversity of viewpoints
Review: Compiled and edited by Marleen S. Barr (Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and winner of the 1997 Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism) Envisioning The Future: Science Fiction And The Next Millennium is an anthology of articulate and knowledgeable essays contributed by a wide variety of authors, including Harlan Ellison, Neil Postman, George Zebrowski, Pamela Sargent. From an engaging diversity of viewpoints, the contributors discuss how science fiction as a literary whole can be expected to change and adapt in the future. Incorporating the overwhelming trend of globalization, cultural shifts in the past century and their predicted progression, and more, Envisioning The Future offers keen insights into the transformation of this popular and evolving literary genre.