Probably only fun to me

[james_davis_nicoll]

Way back when the world was young and people still bought American home electronics, Avon published a book called 2020 Vision, ed. J. Pournelle, which featured eight stories and two essays. The stories were all supposed to be set in the year 2020 and I think they all had to be set on Earth as well. According to isfdb, the contents were:

The Pugilist • (1973) • novelette by Poul Anderson
A Thing of Beauty • (1973) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad
Cloak of Anarchy • [Known Space] • (1972) • shortstory by Larry Niven
Silent in Gehenna • (1971) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Future Perfect • (1973) • shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
Prognosis: Terminal • novelette by David McDaniel
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry • shortstory by Dian Crayne [as by Dian Girard ]
Build Me a Mountain • shortstory by Ben Bova
Do We Live in a Golden Age? • essay by Jerry Pournelle
Preface (2020 Vision) • essay by Jerry Pournelle

[Was Dian Girard the one who had a ditzy female lead who kept failing her way to success?]

Some of these were fairly gloomy (Poul Anderson circa 1973 was not the go-to guy for happy SF and in fact I think it was about this time that he had David Falkayn betray Van Rijn) but I like the basic idea behind the collection. I'd be very curious what a modern reply to it would look like.