[PEN-L:1324] Attention, future fans!

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

=====> I first saw this on the day it was posted.  At that time
       my intention was both to tell Dr Wagar how much I had enjoyed
       his book and to forward his appeal hither.
       Well, I spaced out both efforts, but, having just wrapped up
       the former, below I offer the fruit of the latter.
       I hope to discern an unmistakable pen-l imprint on the next
       edition of the Short History.
                                                           valis


From: wwagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sat Aug 15 15:58:04 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:57:59 -0400 (EDT)
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Third Edition of A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.970708132955.11782C-100000@bingsun1>



Dear WSN'ers:

	The University of Chicago Press has agreed to bring out a third
edition of my A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, to apppear in the summer of
1999 and take advantage of pre-millennial fever.  A SHORT HISTORY has the
strange distinction of being the world's only world-systems novel.

	I will not have a chance to make any extensive or fundamental
changes in the text, but I can rewrite a few lines here and there,
especially in the near-future segment, "Earth, Inc."  Some near-future
"facts" and "dates" will obviously need work, although I'm not sure that I
have to rewrite the Pakistani-Indian nuclear war of 2000!

	If you have any suggestions for changes and revisions, I would
very much welcome them.  Here's your chance to help rewrite future
history!

	Thanks.

	Warren Wagar