Reach for Tomorrow is a collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 writer Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

. 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
  The Forgotten Enemy
  "The Forgotten Enemy" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke that appeared in the science fiction magazine New Worlds, in August 1949. It was included in Clarke's collection of science fiction short stories Reach for Tomorrow, in 1956...
  
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• "Technical Error
  Technical Error
  "Technical Error" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It was published in 1950 under the title "The Reversed Man" and appeared again in Clarke's collection of short stories Reach for Tomorrow, in 1956.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "The Parasite"
• "The Fires Within"
• "The Awakening"
• "Trouble With the Natives"
• "The Curse"
• "Time's Arrow
  Time's Arrow (short story)
  "Time's Arrow" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1950.This is the story of a human visit to time when dinosaurs still roamed earth, in a time machine. Probably accidentally, as hinted towards the end of the story....
  
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• "Jupiter Five"
• "The Possessed"

Reception

Galaxy

Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break in to the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L...

reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the collection as "an excellent cross-section of the art of one of science fiction's foremost exponents." Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...

, 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."

External links

• Open Library's entry for Reach for Tomorrow