Reach for Tomorrow

Reach for Tomorrow

First edition
Author	Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist	Richard Powers[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction Short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1956
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	166 pp

Reach for Tomorrow (ISBN 0-345-32651-2) is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.

Contents

This collection, originally published in 1956, 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]

References

1. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?27470
2. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1955, p.110
3. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, July 1956, p.94.

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 102. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

• Reach for Tomorrow title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Open Library's entry for Reach for Tomorrow