The Victorians' discovery of deep geological time was unsettling. Suddenly, human history was an afterthought, a link between an unthinkably long past and a newly imaginable future. H. G. Wells and his heirs, from Olaf Stapledon and J. D. Bernal to Freeman Dyson, tried to sketch what might come in the millennia after us. Today, most futurists are preoccupied with the problems of the next ten decades, although a few bright-eyed fabulists still scan the far horizon. Australian author and critic Damien Broderick brings them together in this mind-expanding volume of essays.
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机译：维多利亚时代对深部地质时代的发现令人不安。突然之间，人类历史是事后的想法，是不可思议的漫长过去和新近可想象的未来之间的联系。 H. G. Wells及其继承人（从Olaf Stapledon和J. D. Bernal到Freeman Dyson）试图勾勒出继我们之后的一千年中可能发生的事情。今天，大多数未来主义者都忙于未来十年的问题，尽管少数眼光灿烂的神话主义者仍在遥远的视野中扫视。澳大利亚作家兼评论家达米恩·布罗德里克（Damien Broderick）在这本思想扩展的论文中将他们融合在一起。
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