To-day and To-morrow
To-day and To-morrow (sometimes written Today and Tomorrow) was a series of 110[
It was a unique publishing event. Many now distinguished personages made their debut in this series or contributed an early work.[2]
Content and reception
The series was one of several series initiated at Kegan Paul by
In 1926 Evelyn Waugh offered to provide a book in the series to be called Noah; or the Future of Intoxication. Though completed in 1927, Waugh's manuscript was rejected for the series and never appeared.[4]
Influence on fiction
Brian Stableford noted that the To-day and To-morrow series provided "an important stimulus to the discussion of future possibilities among the British intelligensia", and hence an increased interest in fiction extrapolating the ideas the series discussed.[5] The work of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in the series influenced later science fiction writers like Olaf Stapledon.[6] Many of the contributors to the To-day and To-morrow series had either written science fiction before (Winifred Holtby, Muriel Jaeger) or would write it after contributing pamphlets to the series (Gerald Heard, J. Leslie Mitchell, John Gloag).[5]
References
- ^ Max Saunders, Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31.
Oxford University Press, 2019 .ISBN 9780198886440Appendix provides complete listing of the series.
- ^ Fredric Warburg, An Occupation for Gentlemen, Houghton Mifflin, 1959, p. 114.
- ^ Brian Stableford, Biotechnology and Speculative Fiction
- ^ David Wykes, Evelyn Waugh: a literary life, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999, p. 38
- ^ a b Brian Stableford,
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature. Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 0810849380, (p. 358).
- Anatomy Of Wonder: a Critical Guide to Science Fiction. Libraries Unlimited, Incorporated, 2004 .ISBN 1591581710(p. 29)
External links
- Brett Holman, bibliography and discussion, 19 January 2010
- Max Saunders, Imagined Futures OUP, 23 February 2023
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