Someone asked Andrés Rojas Murphy why he read science fiction. His answer: because it let him know a world he would never live to see. That answer became the title.
It’s not his book in the usual sense: it’s his anthology (Chile, 1974). He read some 600 stories and kept only the ones he thought were the best, a completely personal pick. All of them about futures near or far that are coming anyway, and that none of us will be around for.
The line-up is a golden-age sampler: Ray Bradbury (twice, “The Million-Year Picnic” among them), Arthur C. Clarke, Fredric Brown, Ward Moore, Mildred Clingerman, Nelson Bond, Alfred Coppel, Ib Melchior…
A reader’s reason to read. The best kind.