Description: The great pleasure of reading this book comes from the unexpected new sense of depth that Abbott gives to his subjects by reading them off each other, in the same way two images in a stereopticon suddenly give the mind a third dimension.Kim Stanley Robinson , author of The Mars Trilogy Abbott boldly goes where no western historian has gone before. . . . A dazzling book that ponders the past and projects possibilities in ways that illuminate the present.Stephen Aron , author of How the West Was Lost and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center Carl Abbott has written a broad, erudite, and entertaining survey of how the West and the Future intersect in fiction, and a thought-provoking study of the interplay of genre, region, and history.Ursula K. Le Guin , author of The Earthsea Cycle

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