Earth In Transit

Description for EARTH IN TRANSIT: SCIENCE FICTION AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS edited by Sheila Schwartz:

Is the survival of our planet at stake?

Pollution, famine, alienation, technological disasters---the planet is beginning to experience such problems on a massive scale. Nations, cities, villages, individuals everywhere continually struggle with matters of life and eath. Will the future offer solutions?

In this timely anthology, the editor has selected fifteen stories from four important areas of contemporary concern: utopia vs. dystopia, overpopulation, though control, and machine power. The stories, chosen for their scientific significance and literary excellence, illustrate the ways in which well-known science fiction writers deal with the same problems.

Includes stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg (2), J.G. Ballard (2), Phillip K. Dick (2), Donald Westlake, others.