{"product_id":"short-history-of-the-future","title":"Short History of the Future","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eShort History of the Future\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eW Warren Wagar\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226869032\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e3rd\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e340\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eW. Warren Wagar's \u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of postmodern times, cast as a history. This powerful and visionary book is narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the twenty-third century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of his fictive historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thanks to Wagar's magisterial command of futurist information and theory, his extrapolated near-term future is an incisive, dynamic vision of where we may indeed be heading.\"--H. Bruce Franklin, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A comprehensive, massively detailed script of a possible near future. . . . Intriguing.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e reads with ease, raises provocative possibilities and presents challenging occasions for thought and argument.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breathtaking future history in the manner of Wells and Stapledon, unnerving in its mixture of fact, fiction, and personal perspectives.\"--George Zebrowski, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Short History of the Future | W Warren Wagar | Paperback | 9780226869032 | Used: Very Good | Science Fiction 1774920","offer_id":50905896550658,"sku":"1774920","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61AcKj6AAOL.jpg?v=1793272775","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/short-history-of-the-future","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}