Subject: Cosmos-Class Science Fiction 
Date: Published: 11/30/89 (29 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    LEISURE & ARTS:
    Bookshorts:  Cosmos-Class Science Fiction
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    By Kevin Pritchett

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    "A Short History of the Future" (Chicago, 332 pages,
 $24.95) by W. Warren Wagar is just that:  a history book
 chronicling future events as though they already have
 happened.  The book's narrative voice belongs to Peter Jensen,
 a historian who, living a couple of centuries from now,
 presents to the reader a world view from the 1990s to the
 beginning of the 23rd century.  Humanity, according to Jensen,
 can look forward to interstellar travel, a vaccine for AIDS
 and contact with extraterrestrials.  We can also look forward
 to nuclear war, the re-emergence of the Cold War and a
 world-wide depression.
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    Mr. Pritchett is a student at Dartmouth.

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