Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction

Overview:

  • Title: Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction
  • Author: Rex Malik
  • Year: 1980
  • ISBN-10: 0903804646
  • Publisher: Frances Pinter
  • Pages: ix+219
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction
  • Notes:
    • Probable first printing
    • No number line
    • "Published in Great Britain in 1980 by Frances Pinter (Publishers) Lyd."
    • Note that copyright is to Sperry Univac
    • No price on book
    • Artist not credited
    • "Cover design redrawn from a frame of film produced by Information International, Inc."
    • Book is broken into five parts. Each part has a titled introduction. Only the first introduction is explicitly credited to Malik, but it is clear from context that Malik wrote all of them.
    • Each essay is preceded, on essay title page, with a short introduction to essay author
    • "Inventing New Worlds I" is credited as "Harry Harrison" in ToC, but as "H. Harrison" on title page