Take A Look At What The Future May Hold

Whatever the future holds, it’ll look interesting; that is, if it looks anything like the pictures in “The Millennium Planner,” the newest book scanning prognostications on “The End of the World As We Know It.”

The 122-page book and accompanying calendar for the year 2000 (Viking Studio Books, $24.95) feature classic depictions of what is to come: colorful detailed prints of deco-style spacecraft and cities, many from old sci-fi magazines; medieval and Renaissance paintings of the Great Dragon and the Last Judgment; marquee posters of memorable films like “Things to Come” from 1933 and “Metropolis” from 1927.

British author Peter Lorie takes much of his material from his own experience: He has written on Nostradamus and has stayed at a Tibetan monastery and an Indian ashram. So “The Millennium Planner” is big on St. John, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and Jeanne Dixon. There’s a lot of astrology and bits of Eastern philosophy, medieval alchemy and Native American legend.

The predictions? Well, for openers, there may be only three more popes; a female U.S. president, perhaps Hillary herself; “economic apocalypse” for our debt-drowned nation; and actual submersion of huge chunks of North America. (Shiver.)

Or to make up your own predictions with the book’s enclosed fancy envelope and paper. You can write down your insights and then seal the “time capsule” (envelope), ready to reopen on Jan. 1, 2000.

After you’ve made your end-ofcentury reservations and marked them on the “The Millennium Planner” calendar, you can send that special someone a nice little invitation card - also thoughtfully enclosed. It reads: “The honor of your presence is requested on the eve of the new millennium, Dec. 31, 1999.”

Never mind that the eve of the new millennium is actually Dec. 31, 2000. The next 1,000 years doesn’t start until Jan. 1, 2001.