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ACTIVITIES
Introduction
by Bill Greer, GORP Founder
 For five years now, GORP has been helping people find adventure. So far we've kept it terrestrial and in the here and now.
To celebrate our fifth anniversary, we decided to take a bolder look into the future. GORP editor and science fiction writer Eileen Gunn persuaded three of today's top science fiction minds to take a look at the outlandish adventure our new millennium promises. Terry Bisson, Lucius Shepard, and Kim Stanley Robinson open our minds to the possibilities from the truly extreme to the future of family fun.
We are also fortunate that Paul Theroux has allowed us to share his musings. Who better than a writer who has exemplified adventure travel for the past decades to comment on what's in store in the coming years?
Illustrators Jay Kinney and Paul Mavrides collaborated on futuristic visualizations that jar the imagination.
Finally, I've started compiling my own Top Ten Adventures for the Next Thousand Years. Remember Jules Verne's Mysterious Island? Raquel Welch's Fantastic Voyage? They don't sound so far out today! Please add your own creations to our list.
| A View
from the Bridge
by Terry Bisson
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GORP interviews the CEO of Extreme Disasters Unlimited, as he prepares to take 1,800 people on the ultimate team-building, family-bonding adventure.
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| Romance
of the Century
by Lucius Shepard
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The children of the millennium will surf hurricanes, dive deep-sea vents, and live long enough to lose love and find it again.
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| The Future
of Adventure
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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A couple explores the outdoors, and finds that the boundaries disappear between themselves and the rest of the world.
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| The Going
Will Be Good
by Paul Theroux
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| A thoughtful, mildly cantankerous essay by the most-traveled major writer of his generation, on the nature of travel as a human imperative. |
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