Berry, Adrian

• The Next 500 Years

  • As part of a number of futuristic books I'm reading in order for find books for a freshman seminar I'll be teaching in the Fall of 1996, I read this book, written in 1994. It starts off fairly readable, and it makes some interesting predictions, trying to justify them by putting it all in the scope of recent history. Too often, though, Berry inserts a big, sour dose of politics that just sticks out like a sore thumb amidst a work of solid, if somewhat boring, "speculative reality" (as opposed to "speculative fiction"). I haven't read many books on coming trends in the future yet, but surely there are better ones than this.

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