FORWARD IN TIME
by Ben Bova
Ten reports from the future by a competent though noncoruscating practitioner. Bova's at his best with tales of futuristic science like the tribulations and ultimate triumph of a massive weather control project or the solution to the malfunctioning of a dueling machine designed to produce hallucinations and is providing all too real corpses. Three stories about astronaut Kinsman create some complexity out of potentially cliched situations, but other efforts are less successful, like a strident paean to the virtues of egocentric humanity.