The Long Tomorrow
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a post-apocalyptic America where science has become a sin and cities are outlawed by constitutional amendment, two young Mennonite boys dare to dream of a world beyond their primitive settlement — a world that the elders insist no longer exists. The Long Tomorrow is Leigh Brackett's masterful 1955 science fiction novel, chronicling the journey of Len Colter and his cousin Esau as they pursue whispered legends of Bartorstown, a hidden community where forbidden technology and knowledge still survive, and where the embers of the old civilisation refuse to die. Written against the backdrop of Cold War anxieties, the novel presents a searing portrait of fundamentalism, fear, and the suppression of human curiosity in the name of survival. Brackett — celebrated screenwriter and creator of Eric John Stark — illustrates with quiet, devastating power how societies can turn against their own ingenuity, and how the hunger for knowledge persists even under the most brutal cultural repression. Her prose is spare yet emotionally resonant, grounding grand speculative ideas in the deeply human struggle between tradition and progress, conformity and truth. Regarded as one of the finest American science fiction novels of its era, The Long Tomorrow asks a question as urgent today as it was in the 1950s: what does humanity stand to lose when it chooses fear over the future?
Author: Leigh Brackett
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a post-apocalyptic America where science has become a sin and cities are outlawed by constitutional amendment, two young Mennonite boys dare to dream of a world beyond their primitive settlement — a world that the elders insist no longer exists. The Long Tomorrow is Leigh Brackett's masterful 1955 science fiction novel, chronicling the journey of Len Colter and his cousin Esau as they pursue whispered legends of Bartorstown, a hidden community where forbidden technology and knowledge still survive, and where the embers of the old civilisation refuse to die. Written against the backdrop of Cold War anxieties, the novel presents a searing portrait of fundamentalism, fear, and the suppression of human curiosity in the name of survival. Brackett — celebrated screenwriter and creator of Eric John Stark — illustrates with quiet, devastating power how societies can turn against their own ingenuity, and how the hunger for knowledge persists even under the most brutal cultural repression. Her prose is spare yet emotionally resonant, grounding grand speculative ideas in the deeply human struggle between tradition and progress, conformity and truth. Regarded as one of the finest American science fiction novels of its era, The Long Tomorrow asks a question as urgent today as it was in the 1950s: what does humanity stand to lose when it chooses fear over the future?