Envisioning the Future

Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium is a 2003 anthology of SF criticism edited by Marleen S. Barr.

Editions

• 2003: Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819566519 (cloth). ISBN 0819566527 (paper).

Contents

• Preface. American Science Fiction; or, "What Happened to the Flying Cars?": Science Fiction / Millennia / Culture" - Marleen S. Barr. p.ix
• Introduction. "Now -- and 3000: Science Fiction Studies / Cultural Studies" - Marleen S. Barr.

Part 1. Future Past.

• Neil Postman, "Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century" - p.19
• James Gunn, "The End-of-the-World Ball" - p.29

Part 2. Future Present.

• Darko Suvin, "Reflections on What Remains of Zamyatin's We after the Change of Leviathans: Must Collectivism Be Against People?" - p.51
• George Zebrowski, "The Coming of Christ the Joker" - p.82
• Harlan Ellison, "Goodbye to All That" - p.99

Part 3. Future Perfect.

• Marleen S. Barr, "Superfeminist; or, A Hanukah Carol" - p.111
• Pamela Sargent, "Utmost Bones" - p.116
• Marge Piercy, "Love and Sex in the Year 3000" - p.131
• Rosi Braidotti, "Cyberteratologies: Female Monsters Negotiate the Other's Participation in Humanity's Far Future", pp. 146-

Part 4. Future Critical.

• Patrick Parrinder, "'You Must Have Seen a Lot of Changes': Fiction Beyond the Twenty-First Century" - p.173
• Eric S. Rabkin, "Review: What Was Science Fiction?" - p.191
• Kim Stanley Robinson, "Review: Science in the Third Millennium" - p.199
• Walter Mosley, “Black to the Future.” pp.202–4. (First appeared in New York Times Magazine.)

• About the Contributors - p.205