2020 Vision
Jerry Pournelle, ed.

This anthology was first published in 1974. That’s the original cover over there on the right. I found a copy of the 1980 edition (the cover isn’t nearly as good) at the Friends of the Library sale last month and thought it would be fun to see what science fiction writers in the 1970s thought this next year would be like.  In some ways, they missed the boat by a mile. In others, they almost nailed it.

The 1980 edition has a few additional editorial comments by Pournelle, but otherwise the two different editions are the same. Continue reading →