TY  - BOOK
AU  - Canto,Christophe
AU  - Faliu,Odile
AU  - Cowper,Francis
TI  - The history of the future: images of the 21st century 
SN  - 2080135449
AV  - CB161 .C3513 1993
U1  - 303.490905 20
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Paris
PB  - Flammarion
KW  - Twenty-first century
KW  - Forecasts
N1  - 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of the Utopias --; Kaleidoscope --; The Game of Conjecture --; A Panorama of the Future --; Fictional Chronologies --; Historical Reference Points --; A Science Fiction Emporium --; Temporary Filters --; One Mile High --; Evening Comes --; Ch. 0; In the rear-view mirror --; Diorama of War --; To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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