ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW Author:ELLISON, HARLAN "Published in 1971, ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW is a retrospective anthology of stories based around the theme of alienation, set against futuristic backgrounds. It contains two of Ellison's most famous works: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," a story of a small group of humans trapped in a virtual hell and tormented by a malevolent virtual god, ... more »and "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," in which a relentless prankster causes bits of chaos in a rigidly structured society, and the final message of which appears to be "You can make a difference; you can put a dent in the machine. Earth's discarded freaks roam the spaceways; a method actor takes his art to the limit; a man is trapped in a room with a robot programmed to obliterate anything that moves; another man finds he has slipped through perception's cracks."« less