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The history of the future : images of the 21st century / Christophe Canto, Odile Faliu ; translated by Francis Cowper.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Paris : Flammarion, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 159 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 2080135449
  • 9782080135445
Uniform titles:
  • Futur antérieur. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.490905 20
LOC classification:
  • CB161 .C3513 1993
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: The future as history -- The Hidden Years -- The Travellers -- The Age of Revolution -- The Scientific Novel -- Thinking of the Future -- A Popular Current -- Amazing Stories -- Prediction in the Hands of Humorists -- The Closed World of the Utopias -- Kaleidoscope -- The Game of Conjecture -- A Panorama of the Future -- Fictional Chronologies -- Historical Reference Points -- A Science Fiction Emporium -- Temporary Filters -- One Mile High -- Evening Comes -- Ch. 0. In the rear-view mirror -- Diorama of War -- To the Slaughterhouse -- Operation Danger -- Universal Energy -- Leisure a Go-Go -- Death to Books -- An Ideal Society -- The March of the Suffragettes -- No Pedestrian Right of Way -- Shivers -- Ch. 1. An ordinary day in the year 2000 -- A Life of Ease -- Extrapolation: Bold Deductions -- Catalogue of the Future -- Operating Instructions for the Future -- Futurist Cliches -- Ch. 2. A world of gears and cogs -- Slaves of Steel -- The Original Function -- Amazing Things -- Cross-sections and Descriptions -- Ex Machina -- Portable Pipe Dreams -- A Hellish Logic -- Reproduction Code -- The Machine-World -- Robots and Co. -- The Laws -- Exegesis -- Ch. 3. The geometry of the future -- Buzzing Aerocabs -- An Enormous Garden -- Cement, Steel and Clouds -- Cubic Zoning -- Space -- Under the Dome -- Structures Built of Greenish Borazon -- Ch. 4. Fear -- Theatre of Horror -- Evil -- Mad Scientists -- Creatures from Elsewhere -- A Litany of Disasters -- They Are Among Us -- A Taylorisation of Time -- Guinea Pigs in Test Tubes -- Psychological Surgery -- Underground Deviants -- Ch. 5. Stellar epilogue -- Colonisers of Space -- Time out of Joint -- Contact -- Life Under the Domes -- Intergalactic University -- Endgame Scenarios -- Silence Reigns -- The Extinction of the Sun -- The Day After the End of the World -- The Last Man -- Fuel for the Stars -- Very Far Away -- Wake me in a thousand years from now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).

Preface -- Introduction: The future as history -- The Hidden Years -- The Travellers -- The Age of Revolution -- The Scientific Novel -- Thinking of the Future -- A Popular Current -- Amazing Stories -- Prediction in the Hands of Humorists -- The Closed World of the Utopias -- Kaleidoscope -- The Game of Conjecture -- A Panorama of the Future -- Fictional Chronologies -- Historical Reference Points -- A Science Fiction Emporium -- Temporary Filters -- One Mile High -- Evening Comes -- Ch. 0. In the rear-view mirror -- Diorama of War -- To the Slaughterhouse -- Operation Danger -- Universal Energy -- Leisure a Go-Go -- Death to Books -- An Ideal Society -- The March of the Suffragettes -- No Pedestrian Right of Way -- Shivers -- Ch. 1. An ordinary day in the year 2000 -- A Life of Ease -- Extrapolation: Bold Deductions -- Catalogue of the Future -- Operating Instructions for the Future -- Futurist Cliches -- Ch. 2. A world of gears and cogs -- Slaves of Steel -- The Original Function -- Amazing Things -- Cross-sections and Descriptions -- Ex Machina -- Portable Pipe Dreams -- A Hellish Logic -- Reproduction Code -- The Machine-World -- Robots and Co. -- The Laws -- Exegesis -- Ch. 3. The geometry of the future -- Buzzing Aerocabs -- An Enormous Garden -- Cement, Steel and Clouds -- Cubic Zoning -- Space -- Under the Dome -- Structures Built of Greenish Borazon -- Ch. 4. Fear -- Theatre of Horror -- Evil -- Mad Scientists -- Creatures from Elsewhere -- A Litany of Disasters -- They Are Among Us -- A Taylorisation of Time -- Guinea Pigs in Test Tubes -- Psychological Surgery -- Underground Deviants -- Ch. 5. Stellar epilogue -- Colonisers of Space -- Time out of Joint -- Contact -- Life Under the Domes -- Intergalactic University -- Endgame Scenarios -- Silence Reigns -- The Extinction of the Sun -- The Day After the End of the World -- The Last Man -- Fuel for the Stars -- Very Far Away -- Wake me in a thousand years from now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations.

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