TY  - BOOK
AU  - Disch,Thomas M.
TI  - The ruins of earth: an anthology of stories of the immediate future 
AV  - PZ1.D59 Ru3
U1  - 813/.0876 
PY  - 1971///
CY  - New York
PB  - Putnam
KW  - Science fiction, American
N1  - Introduction : on saving the world / Thomas M. Disch. -- The way it is: Deer in the works / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Three million square miles / Gene Wolfe. Closing with nature / by Norman Rush -- Why it is the way it is: The plot to save the world / Michael Brownstein. Autofac / Philip K. Dick. Roommates / Harry Harrison. Groaning hinges of the world / R.A. Lafferty -- How it could get worse: Gas mask / James D. Houston. Wednesday, November 15, 1967 / Geo. Alec Effinger. The cage of sand / J.G. Ballard. Accident vertigo / Kenward Elmslie. The birds / Daphne du Maurier -- Unfortunate solutions: Do it for mamma! / Jerrold J. Mundis. The dreadful has already happened / Norman Kagan. The shaker revival / Gerald Jonas. America the beautiful / Fritz Leiber. N. Kagan -- The shaker revival / by G. Jonas -- America the beautiful / by F. Leiber
N2  - The theme of this book is ecological catastrophe-- and the uncomfortable truth is that these catastrophes don't require prophecy, only simple observation
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/ruinsofearthanth00disc
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL24218675M
ER  -