THEIR FUTURE. OUR PRESENT.
AN ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES THAT SAW IT COMING.
PROJECTIONS
“A lovely production.”
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“A terrific keepsake and gift idea as well as full of lots of great reading.”
—Alex Good, Toronto Star
Climate change. A global pandemic. The new faces of fascism. By just about any metric, we are living through times that no one will soon forget. Who could have seen it coming?
Science-fiction writers, that’s who.
Projections is an anthology of sci-fi stories that in some way predicted life in the present day. Edited and introduced by renowned rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney, these pieces are gathered from across the genre’s rich, diverse history. Collectively, they help illuminate both past and present alike.
The 12 individually bound booklets are packaged together in a custom box with a die-cut window and include:
Mary Griffith, Three Hundred Years Hence (excerpt)
Mark Twain, “From the ‘London Times’ of 1904”
Edward A. Johnson, Light Ahead for the Negro (excerpt)
Begum Rokeya, “Sultana’s Dream”
Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (excerpt)
Doris Pitkin Buck, “Birth of a Gardener”
J. G. Ballard, “The Intensive Care Unit”
Pablo Capanna, “Acronia” (translated by Andrea Bell)
James Blish, We All Die Naked (excerpt)
L. Timmel Duchamp, “The Forbidden Words of Margaret A.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (excerpt)
And, in a new experiment with Colour Code Printing, we’ve also produced a special run of 100 copies that have a risograph-printed box featuring thermography (raised ink). These extra-limited sets are each hand-numbered and signed by Romney.
“At its core, much of science fiction is a thought experiment that has been shaped into a human story. The writer proposes a hypothesis, then creates an artistic experiment to test it. If women were granted the same access to scientific education, then what would happen? If racial bias were stripped out of the news, then what would the world look like? If we had to remain in physical isolation from each other for the entirety of our lives, then how would we react? Science fiction is where formal logic and unbounded imagination meet.”
H&O 011 / ISBN: 9781777185503 / September 2020