Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index
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George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin: Introduction:Science fiction confronts the future
George E. Slusser: pt. 1.Originating the future:Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future
Paul Alkon: Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future
Marie-Hélène Huet: Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction
Howard V. Hendrix: The thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future
Bradford Lyau: Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future
Gregory Benford: Reactionary Utopias
José Manuel Mota: Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future
Frederik Pohl: pt. 2.Orwell: an interim report:Coming up on 1984
George Hay: O'Brien's interim report
Colin Greenland: Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction
John Huntington: Orwell and the uses of the future
Elizabeth Maslen: One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four
W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell: Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation
T.A. Shippey: Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four
Kenneth V. Bailey: pt. 3.Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse:Aliens for the alienated
Gary Kern: News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication
Frank McConnell.: Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game
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