4 FUTURES Author:Lafferty, Silverberg, Panshin, Harrison The four short novels offered here have never before appeared in paperback. They were written by four of today's best-known science-fiction writers in response to the provocative Foreward by Isaac Asimov, in which that famous writer suggests a group of themes dealing with the nature of life in the twenty-first century. Each writer selected the... more » theme that most strongly appealed to him, and each wrote his story without knowledge of the approaches the other three were taking. The outcome is a quartet of short novels that brings to life the ideas sketched by Asimov, handling them with an individuality of technique that no single writer could have produced.« less