Envisioning the Future

In this collection of fiction and essays, writers in the science fiction world explore our relationship to the future through the dual lens of science fiction and cultural studies and provide a rich testament to the power of science fiction to help us re-imagine reality. Each contributor was asked to reflect on our anxiety about the new millennium and to write about how science fiction could help us envision the far future and future cultural spaces. The resulting array of speculative writings, both critical and fictional, is diverse and illuminating - from a personal essay by Marge Piercy on love, sex and the power of fiction, to a story by Harlan Ellison in which consumerism is the opiate of the masses, to a fictional book review by Kim Stanley Robinson which imagines what future historians will say about science in the third millennium.