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Science fiction tales, some humorous and some not-so-funny, about the downside of the future--and how to deal with a universe ruled by Murphy's Law! Includes stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Sarah A. Hoyt, Fritz Leiber, Gordon R. Dickson, Lester del Rey, Christopher Anvil, Fredric Brown, and more.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG . . . ?

Progress! It's wonderful--though it sometimes has unexpected and undesirable side effects. Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle's label sometime . . . the part in really tiny print.

But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks. Until they don't. Remember how increasingly deadly weapons, from the machine gun to the H-bomb, were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn't happen. The cell phone has made it possible to phone from almost anywhere--too bad if you wanted to be out of reach. And civilization is so big and complicated, that a breakdown of any part can have disastrous consequences. Modern transportation makes it possible to get anywhere in a hurry, though traffic jams and overextended airports may slow the hurry part to a crawl. And it also can ensure that a new disease can go all over the planet in a few days. Then, there's the sheer complexity of society itself, from interminable waits at the DMV to trying to get tech help on the phone ("Your call is important to us . . .").

And that's just the present day. What new technologies, new ways of organizing (or disorganizing) society, new confused and confusing government bureaucracies, new ways for small disgruntled groups to wreak havoc, and worse, will the future bring? Will privacy keep eroding? Could computers and robots take over? Maybe they wouldn't want to. And if the pace of modern life is driving you batty, just wait to see what's on the horizon.

Exploring such scary, yet fascinating, possibilities are such masters of science fiction as Robert A. Heinlein, Sarah A. Hoyt, Fritz Leiber, Gordon R. Dickson, Lester del Rey, Christopher Anvil, Fredric Brown, and more, writers who have seen the future--and it may not work . . .

Priase for If This Goes Wrong . . .:

"A strong collection with a number of clever stories that deserve to be reintroduced to the public. For those who enjoy the Golden Age of Science Fiction and have a sense of the absurd this is a definite buy."--Tangent

Praise for previous anthologies edited by Hank Davis

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
". . . the 13 tales in this collection blend sf with horror to demonstrate the resiliency of both genres . . . offers strong tales by the genre's best storytellers." --Library Journal

". . . first-rate science fiction, demonstrating how short stories can still entertain." --Galveston County Daily News

A Cosmic Christmas 2 You
"This creative and sprightly Christmas science fiction anthology spins in some surprising directions . . . A satisfying read for cold winter evenings . . . a great stocking stuffer for SF fans." --Publishers Weekly

As Time Goes By
"As Time Goes By . . . does an excellent job of exploring not only romance through time travel--relationships enabled or imperiled by voyaging through time--but the intrinsic romance of time travel itself . . . The range of styles and approaches is as wide as the authors' sensibilities and periods might suggest . . . full of entertaining and poignant stories . . ." --Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, IntergalacticMedicineShow.com



About the Author: Hank Davis (b. 1944) is originally from Kentucky, wasted far too much time in New York, and has been a sometimes-spectral presence at Baen Books for over three decades. He has never quite shaken off the life-changing event of reading A. E. van Vogt's Slan while in the second grade, leading to his reading every bit of sf he could get his hands on during his portion of the twentieth century, along with watching a lot of TV shows and movies, many of them pretty bad. However, the twenty-first century has mostly been disappointing (even with better movies and TV shows). For example, he sold a story to Harlan Ellison in 1969, shortly before being shipped off to Vietnam to help the 101st Airborne Division lose the war, under LBJ's ineptitude, and recently learned, over half a century later, that it will not be published in The Last Dangerous Visions. More successfully, he has had stories published in the magazines If, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Bluegrass Woman, as well as Orbit 11, and a few other original anthologies (but not in TLDV). He is currently vegetating in North Carolina, and, as an advanced glaucoma case, listens to e-texts and wishes that even if the disappointing twenty-first century doesn't have flying cars, it could at the very least have brought forth cars that drive themselves by now.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476782027
  • Publisher: Baen
  • Publisher Imprint: Baen
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 104 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1476782024
  • Publisher Date: 27 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 170 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 231 gr


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