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The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction
| Author: | Martin H. Greenberg Ralph S. Clem Joseph D. Olander |
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Fawcett Books, 1976 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Dystopia Near-Future Human Development |
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Synopsis
Futuristic visions of the fantastic way man will someday live.
Table of Contents:
- 11 - Introduction: Why the City? - essay by the editors
- 15 - Of Dreams and Nightmares: Visions of the City - essay by the editors
- 18 - The City as a Way of Life: New York A.D. 2660 - essay by the editors
- 19 - New York A.D. 2660 (Excerpt) - short fiction by Hugo Gernsback
- 32 - Jesting Pilot - essay by the editors
- 33 - Jesting Pilot - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
- 46 - Chicago - essay by the editors
- 47 - Chicago - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
- 62 - Utopian Visions: Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - essay by the editors
- 63 - Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - short story by Robert Sheckley
- 78 - Dystopian Visions: The Vanishing American - essay by the editors
- 79 - The Vanishing American - short story by Charles Beaumont
- 90 - Yesterday's Dreams, Today's Problems, Tomorrow's Nightmares? - essay by the editors
- 92 - The Competition for Space - essay by the editors
- 94 - Billennium - short story by J. G. Ballard
- 109 - Total Environment - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
- 151 - Future Ghetto: Race and the City - essay by the editors
- 155 - Black Is Beautiful - short story by Robert Silverberg
- 169 - In Dark Places - short story by Joe L. Hensley
- 178 - Fouling the Nest: Pollution in the City - essay by the editors
- 181 - East Wind, West Wind - novelette by Frank M. Robinson (variant of "East Wind, West Wind")
- 208 - Disposal - short story by Ron Goulart
- 216 - Fear in the City: The Problem of Crime - essay by the editors
- 218 - The Undercity - short story by Dean R. Koontz
- 231 - Rivers of Asphalt, Oceans of Concrete: Transportation Problems - essay by the editors
- 233 - Gas Mask - short story by James D. Houston
- 243 - Traffic Problem - short story by Bill Earls
- 252 - The Grass is Always Greener: The Flight to the Suburbs - essay by the editors
- 254 - Gantlet - short story by Richard E. Peck
- 266 - City's End - novelette by Mack Reynolds
- 282 - The Slime Dwellers - short story by Scott Edelstein
- 289 - A Happy Day in 2381 - [Urban Monad] - short story by Robert Silverberg
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