A short history of the future
By: W. Warren Wagar ; afterword by Immanuel Wallerstein.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.; Twentieth century -- Forecasts.; Imaginary histories.
Description: "W. Warren Wagar's A Short History of the Future 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 through 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and indexes.