Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020

In article <vcdjoc$3u4qi$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/17/2024 10:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
 
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
 
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/

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"2020 Vision edited by Jerry Pournelle (1974)" looks very familiar.  And
I passed on "Directive 51" and the others.
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I've got another book at the back of my mind but it refuses to release
the name so far.  Maybe "Wolf and Iron" by Gordon Dickson ???
   https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Iron-Gordon-R-Dickson/dp/0812533348/
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Or "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler which one reviewer said
is set around 2015.
   https://www.amazon.com/World-Made-James-Howard-Kunstler/dp/0802144012/

Does not seem to specify a period aside from "Sometime in the
not-distant future. . . ." but "the early twenty-first century"
is in the past.


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