Reach for Tomorrow explained

Reach for Tomorrow
Author:	Arthur C. Clarke
Cover Artist:	Richard Powers^[1]
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Release Date:	1956
Media Type:	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages:	166

Reach for Tomorrow is a 1956 collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. All the stories originally appeared in a number of different publications.

Contents

This collection includes:

• "Preface"
• "Rescue Party"
• "A Walk in the Dark"
• "The Forgotten Enemy"
• "Technical Error"
• "The Parasite"
• "The Fires Within"
• "The Awakening"
• "Trouble With the Natives"
• "The Curse"
• "Time's Arrow"
• "Jupiter Five"
• "The Possessed"

Reception

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the collection as "an excellent cross-section of the art of one of science fiction's foremost exponents."^[2] Anthony Boucher, however, characterized most of the shorter pieces as inferior work, excluded from Clarke's previous collection, but praised two (unspecified) novelettes as "uniquely authentic Clarke."^[3]

Sources

• Book: Tuck, Donald H. . Donald H. Tuck

. Donald H. Tuck . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Chicago . . 102 . 1974. 0-911682-20-1.

External links

• • Open Library's entry for Reach for Tomorrow

Notes and References

1. Web site: Publication: Reach for Tomorrow.
2. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1955, p.110
3. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, July 1956, p.94.