Three for Tomorrow Author:Arthur C. Clarke (Editor) Presenting three fine full length novellas. Arthur C. Clarke set forth the general theme, and each author wrote independently with three wild results! — Contents: —
Editor's Introduction (Three For Tomorrow) (1969) • essay by Robert Silverberg [as by uncredited]
Foreword (Three for Tomorrow) (1969) &... more »bull; essay by Arthur C. Clarke
How It Was When the Past Went Away (1969) / novella by Robert Silverberg: The aftermath of an event that causes mass memory loss. A loony with a bunch of nifty drugs puts amnesifacients in San Francisco’s water supply. The city starts to fall apart as people forget who they are, who they’re married to, where they work.
The Eve of RUMOKO [Nemo] (1969) / novella by Roger Zelazny: Project RUMOKO is a plan to use nuclear explosives to create artificial islands; the hero must identify and stop a saboteur on the project. Considers the power for good or evil, of a man whose name does not appear in the Central Data Bank, who lives outside the computerized supervision of human activity.
We All Die Naked (1969) / novelette by James Blish: A story about eco collapse in future Manhattan. An often hilarious satire of a future polluted world literally filled up with the refuse of boundless human consumption.