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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:44:39 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
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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
>> 
>> How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
>> look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
>> 
>> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
>
>"2020 Vision edited by Jerry Pournelle (1974)" looks very familiar.  And 
>I passed on "Directive 51" and the others.
>
>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/
>
>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. 


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