The Star-Spangled Future Author:Norman Spinrad AN MERICAN DREAM/AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: FOURTEEN STORIES IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE — "America is something new under this sun. Not so much a nation at all as a precog flash of the future of the species... — "I wrote (THE STAR-SPANGLED FUTURE)believing that I was simply writing disconnected science fiction stories from whatever came into my head...And ... more »they all turn out to be about America, the leading edge of the possible futures unfolding around us...After all, that was what was coming into my head, that's the mother lode of science fiction realities - the American fusion plasma of which we are creatures - and all we have to do is keep ourselves open to it...that's my definition of science fiction.
"We have seen the future and it is us." by Norman Spinrad, from his Introduction« less