Envisioning the Future

Science Fiction and the Next Millennium

By: Marleen S. Barr

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Paperback | 3 September 2003

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Writers speculate on the future and the role of science fiction.

In this unique collection of fiction and essays, some of the best writers in the science fiction world explore our relationship to the future through the dual lens of science fiction and cultural studies, and provide a rich testament to the power of science fiction to help us re-imagine reality.

Each contributor was asked to reflect on our anxiety about the new millennium and to write about how science fiction could help us envision the far future and future cultural spaces. The resulting array of speculative writings, both critical and fictional, is diverse and illuminating--from a personal essay by Marge Piercy on love, sex and the power of fiction; to a new story by Harlan Ellison in which consumerism is the opiate of the masses; to a fictional book review by Kim Stanley Robinson which imagines what future historians will say about science in the third millennium.

CONTRIBUTORS: Marleen S. Barr, Rosi Braidotti, Harlan Ellison, James Gunn, Walter Mosley, Patrick Parrinder, Marge Peircy, Neil Postman, Eric S. Rabkin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pamela Sargent, Darko Suvin, George Zebrowski.

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"Marleen Barr offers an exciting collection mixing science fiction stories and commentary, and her introduction is splendid--combining rambunctious critical analysis with acerbic social criticism."--Jane Donawerth, Professor of English, Affiliate in Women's Studies, University of Maryland

"Marleen Barr offers an exciting collection mixing science fiction stories and commentary, and her introduction is splendid--combining rambunctious critical analysis with acerbic social criticism."--Jane Donawerth, Professor of English, Affiliate in Women's Studies, University of Maryland

"The new millennium has arrived and these articles and stories continue to enlighten and entertain. How lucky we are that Marleen Barr has brought them together in this collection."--Camille Bacon-Smith, author of Science Fiction Culture

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Society & Culture Cultural Studies Fiction Science Fiction Sociology & Anthropology

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