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REACH FOR TOMORROW by Arthur C. Clarke

REACH FOR TOMORROW

by Arthur C. Clarke

Pub Date: Oct. 13th, 1998
ISBN: 0345430719
Publisher: Ballantine

A new collection of short stories range forward in time and view a changing universe; old worlds die- and new civilizations replace them. And there are many extraterrestrial excursions in strange ships. The earth is ruined and the "forgotten enemy"- the glacier- will repossess it; a flying saucer with its suspect passengers lands; a powerful lens reveals a race beneath the earth. And there are personal tragedies as well: Nelson, after the shock of a generator, is laterally inverted, Connolly is haunted by a parasitic presence which drives him to his death; etc., etc. An unsettling- but diverting form of divination.