TEVT00-17 Thomas A Easton and Judith Klein-Dial - Visions of Tomorrow.nfo
General Information
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Title: Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True
Author: Thomas A Easton (Editor/Contributor), Judith Klein-Dial (Editor),
Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Cleve Cartmill, Robert Sheckley,
Jeff Hecht, Murray Leinster , Gregory Benford, James Van Pelt,
Rajnar Vajra, David Gerrold, Vonda N McIntyre, Richard A Lovett,
Hal Clement, Charles Sheffield, Robert Sivlerberg (Foreword)
Read By: J. P. Linton
Copyright: 2010
Audiobook Copyright: 2013
Genre: Sci-Fi - Anthology
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapterized - lossless
Source: Audible Enhanced
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 17
Total Duration: 11:28:28
Total MP3 Size: 315.35
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: iTunes
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Audible Editor Reviews
Among the displays of foresight in this anthology of never-before-collected
prescient tales are H. G. Wells envisioning the use of tanks in warfare;
Jeff Hecht and Thomas Eaton pursuing the "whimsy" of high-powered laser
and genetic engineering; Vonda McIntyre building predictive fiction
upon the concept of print-on-demand organs; Fritz Leiber considering
solar power might play out. Stage, screen, and television veteran J.
P. Linton takes on the many roles, bringing passion, fear, humor, humility,
and, always, humanity to the words and visions of science fiction (on
the cutting edge of reality) masters.
Publisher's Summary
A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales.
Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world's
writers have been recording the future as it might exist - and as it
turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most
stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time.
Visions of Tomorrow includes "The Land Iron Clads" by H. G. Wells, who
described a military tank in 1903 - long before it was ever a possibility;
"The Yesterday House" by Fritz Leiber, who wrote about cloned humans;
and many more. In this stunning anthology of never-before-collected
stories, our world's greatest science fiction writers demonstrate that
the truth can be just as strange as fiction.
Inc.
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