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050 00 $aPS648.S3$bF9 1994
082 00 $a813/.0876208$220
245 00 $aFuture quartet :$bearth in the year 2042 : a four-part invention /$cBen Bova [and others].
260 $aNew York :$bW. Morrow,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $avi, 294 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"An AvoNova book."
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rCharles Sheffield -- $t2042: A Cautiously Pessimistic View /$rBen Bova -- $tThy Kingdom Come /$rBen Bova -- $tA Visit to Belindia /$rFrederik Pohl -- $tWhat Dreams Remain /$rFrederik Pohl -- $tReport on Planet Earth /$rCharles Sheffield -- $tThe Price of Civilization /$rCharles Sheffield -- $tDemocracy in America in the Year 2042 /$rJerry Pournelle -- $tHigher Education /$rJerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield.
520 1 $a"What awaits our children and grandchildren half a century hence? Will their America be a paradise of plenty - a crime and pollution-free high-tech Eden? Or will the greed and shortsighted excess of our present time beget misery and despair - dooming future generations for centuries to come?" "These are the questions posed to four of our most respected and prescient speculators on the future-possible - the award-winning giants in the field of science fiction: Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield. Basing his projections on current technological, scientific, environmental and biomedical forecasts, each author offers a unique, startling and eminently probable overview of tomorrow - and then brings his posited world to remarkable life in a related masterwork of short fiction." "From the utopian to the dystopian - from the guardedly optimistic to the pessimistically hopeful - here are four radically different, yet equally viable visions of the near-future." "Stroll with an aimless vagabond through Frederik Pohl's terrifying Third World America - and into a rich man's impossible dream of space flight. Get a taste of the good life from Charles Sheffield - while learning the tragically high cost of civilization. Experience the grim realities of day-to-day living in Ben Bova's crumbling city of disposable people - and take a grand tour through "Higher Education"...with reservations." "A dream, a nightmare...or a combination of the two, the future will be whatever we make of it. And now you hold that future in your hands."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience fiction, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118637
650 0 $aTwenty-first century$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112901
650 0 $aTwenty-first century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139024
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aShort stories.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026542
700 1 $aBova, Ben,$d1932-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021628
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS648.S3$iF9 1994g