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    Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True

    By Robert Silverberg, David Gerrold, Charles Sheffield and

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    An “intriguing” look at science fiction that foresaw the future, from computer viruses to space elevators—by authors from H. G. Wells to Gregory Benford (Publishers Weekly).
     
    Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world’s most revered writers have been creating far-fetched tales of advanced technology and the future as it might exist—and as it turns out, they were right.
     
    This fascinating anthology collects the most prescient visions and imagined inventions that classic fiction has to offer. Visions of Tomorrow includes:
     
    * “The Land Ironclads” by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903, long before it was ever a possibility;
    * “Yesterday House” by Fritz Leiber, which predicted the ability to clone human beings;
    * Robert Sheckley’s blackly comic “The Prize of Peril,” which hinted at a lethal lead-in to reality television;
    * “Reason” by Isaac Asimov, which envisioned satellites that could harness solar power;
    * And many more.
     
    In this stunning anthology of never-before-collected stories, our world’s greatest science fiction writers demonstrate that the truth can be just as strange as fiction.
     
    This ebook also includes an introduction by Robert Silverberg and selections by Edgar Allan Poe, Gregory Benford, Cleve Cartmill, Jeff Hecht, Thomas Easton, Murray Leinster, James Van Pelt, Rajnar Vajra, David Gerrold. Vonda N. McIntyre, Richard A. Lovett, Hal Clement, and Charles Sheffield.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 8, 2010
    ISBN9781628730081
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    Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True
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    Robert Silverberg

    <p>Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious <em>Prix Apollo.</em> He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics <em>Dying Inside</em> and <em>A Time of Changes</em> -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are <em>Legends</em> and <em>Far Horizons,</em> which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.</p>

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