"FutureWorld" explains everything you need to know about how science fiction shapes the way we see and do things and the way we dream of things to come. Made up of one hundred entries across four themes - space, time, machine and monster - this book is an authoritative guide on how much of the fiction has become fact and what it might be possible to achieve in such areas as time travel and the discovery of alien live. Using examples from classic science fiction books and films, "FutureWorld" is full of fascinating facts about the world we live in today and the one that awaits us in the future.