THEOBALD, Robert

(1929-)

   US writer and economist, an exponent of the need for alternative technologies and strategies to survive the turn of the century; his several texts on these issues culminate in An Alternative Future for America's Third Century (1976). His sf novel, Teg's 1994: An Anticipationof the Near Future (1972) with J.M. Scott, carries on these concerns through a series of dialogues between George ORWELL-Fellowship-winner Teg and various interlocutors who discuss the course of history leading up to 1994, a time less bad than it might have been (because alternativetechnologies were employed), hence the name of the fellowship she has won. The book, originally circulated in mimeographed form in 1969, was writtento elicit readers' responses, and 60pp of the first printed edn contain readers' and authors' comments.

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