Which Way to the Future?: Selected Essays from Analog (R)

by Stanley Schmidt

Book Overview

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better, says Stanley Schmidt, and he should know. As the editor of Analog (and a science-fiction writer himself), he's thought about the future more than most. Since the golden age of John W. Campbell (editor from 1938-72), Analog magazine has been renowned for editorials that provoke, prod, inspire, anger, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765301040
• ISBN13: 9780765301048
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Best part of the magazine

Whenever I get the latest Analog the first thing I read is Stanley Scmidt's editorial, and not just because it's the first thing in the magazine. Now the best of them are finally in book form. Scmidt has an opinion on everything from education to the environment to scientific "heresy." All of these topics are discussed with logic, common sense, disdain for "correctness". Schmidt does not suffer fools lightly, and always provokes more thought than the sound bites on the nightly news. True, these essays were first published in an sf magazine, but you don't have to be a fan to appreciate them. Read this book. Better yet, send a copy to your nearest elected official. It might do some good.