History of the Future: Images of the 21st Century Book

	Preface	6
	Introduction: The future as history	8
	The Hidden Years	9
	The Travellers	10
	The Age of Revolution	10
	The Scientific Novel	12
	Thinking of the Future	12
	A Popular Current	13
	Amazing Stories	14
	Prediction in the Hands of Humorists	14
	The Closed World of the Utopias	15
	Kaleidoscope	16
	The Game of Conjecture	18
	A Panorama of the Future	19
	Fictional Chronologies	19
	Historical Reference Points	20
	A Science Fiction Emporium	20
	Temporary Filters	21
	One Mile High	22
	Evening Comes	23
Ch. 0	In the rear-view mirror	24
	Diorama of War	26
	To the Slaughterhouse	27
	Operation Danger	29
	Universal Energy	30
	Leisure a Go-Go	31
	Death to Books	32
	An Ideal Society	33
	The March of the Suffragettes	33
	No Pedestrian Right of Way	36
	Shivers	36
Ch. 1	An ordinary day in the year 2000	38
	A Life of Ease	43
	Extrapolation: Bold Deductions	45
	Catalogue of the Future	47
	Operating Instructions for the Future	52
	Futurist Cliches	54
Ch. 2	A world of gears and cogs	56
	Slaves of Steel	58
	The Original Function	60
	Amazing Things	62
	Cross-sections and Descriptions	64
	Ex Machina	65
	Portable Pipe Dreams	67
	A Hellish Logic	67
	Reproduction Code	68
	The Machine-World	71
	Robots and Co.	72
	The Laws	74
	Exegesis	74
Ch. 3	The geometry of the future	76
	Buzzing Aerocabs	79
	An Enormous Garden	83
	Cement, Steel and Clouds	85
	Cubic Zoning	86
	Space	90
	Under the Dome	92
	Structures Built of Greenish Borazon	94
Ch. 4	Fear	98
	Theatre of Horror	100
	Evil	103
	Mad Scientists	104
	Creatures from Elsewhere	105
	A Litany of Disasters	106
	They Are Among Us	107
	A Taylorisation of Time	108
	Guinea Pigs in Test Tubes	110
	Psychological Surgery	112
	Underground Deviants	117
Ch. 5	Stellar epilogue	120
	Colonisers of Space	122
	Time out of Joint	126
	Contact	128
	Life Under the Domes	131
	Intergalactic University	132
	Endgame Scenarios	133
	Silence Reigns	134
	The Extinction of the Sun	137
	The Day After the End of the World	139
	The Last Man	140
	Fuel for the Stars	142
	Very Far Away	144
	Wake me in a thousand years from now	150
	Notes	154
	Bibliography	156
	List of illustrations	158