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

On 9/18/2024 8:44 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

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
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How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
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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.

You are correct.  My review says "This book is set roughly in 2030 or 2040.".
Thanks,
Lynn