Storm warnings : science fiction confronts the future - Slusser, George Edgar; Greenland, Colin, 1954-; Rabkin, Eric S. (Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1987)
Introduction: Science fiction confronts the future / George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin -- pt. 1. Originating the future: Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future / George E. Slusser -- Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future / Paul Alkon -- Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction / Marie-Hélène Huet -- The thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future / Howard V. Hendrix -- Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future / Bradford Lyau -- Reactionary Utopias / Gregory Benford -- Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future / José Manuel Mota -- pt. 2. Orwell: an interim report: Coming up on 1984 / Frederik Pohl -- O'Brien's interim report / George Hay -- Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction / Colin Greenland -- Orwell and the uses of the future / John Huntington -- One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four / Elizabeth Maslen -- Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation / W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell -- Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four / T.A. Shippey -- pt. 3. Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse: Aliens for the alienated / Kenneth V. Bailey -- News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication / Gary Kern -- Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game / Frank McConnell.
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