'If the twentieth century was the American Century, who will the next one belong to ... and what will become of the nation's capital?
'Will Washington D.C. be drowned in the rising tides and its glory days forgotten, or will its residents rise to the challenge and remake the world in its image? In these stories you'll find as many questions as answers, but if assembled authors agree on anything, it's that we are destined to live in interesting times and more than that ... ones that we will have a hand in creating. Ask not what the future can do for you...'
*Source:8 Publisher's blurb.
An alien is sent to Washington DC to determine how its bureaucracy works, with a view to invading the planet. He finds he is not the only alien civilisation with this plan–and none of the others can work out Earth bureaucracy, either.
