| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 313 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
"Anthology of never-before-collected stories"--Page 4 of cover. |
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"A Herman Graf Book." |
| Contents |
The balloon hoax / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The land ironclads / by H.G. Wells -- Deadline / by Cleve Cartmill -- The prize of peril / by Robert Sheckley -- Directed energy / by Jeff Hecht -- Matchmaker / by Thomas A. Easton -- A logic named Joe / by Murray Leinster -- The scarred man / by Gregory Benford -- The infodict / by James Van Pelt -- E-Mage / by Rajnar Vajra -- How we saved the human race / by David Gerrold -- Misprint / by Vonda N. McIntyre -- Excellence / by Richard A. Lovett -- The mechanic / by Hal Clement -- Skystalk / by Charles Sheffield. |
| Summary |
A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world's writers have been recording the future as it might exist;and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes The Land Iron Clads by H.G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903?long before it was ever a possibility; The Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber, who wrote about cloned humans; and many more. In this stunning anthology of never-before-collected stories, our world's greatest science fiction writers demonstrate that the truth can be just as strange as fiction. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American.
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Science fiction, English.
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Technological innovations -- Fiction.
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Forecasting -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
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Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst00931721
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Science fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01108635
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Science fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst01108670
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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Short stories, English. (OCoLC)fst01117174
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Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01145002
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction, American.
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Science fiction, English.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Easton, Thomas A.
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Dial, Judith K.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Visions of tomorrow. New York : Skyhorse Pub., ©2010 9781602399983 (OCoLC)464580022 |
| ISBN |
9781441698476 (electronic bk.) |
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1441698477 (electronic bk.) |
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