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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Could he hold the world together?
The Vikes were in the saddle riding high - peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only one man stood between them and a world gone mad...
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW is more than a frighteningly dynamic story. It is a savage satire on the perverse thrill-seekers of today - those who turn-on only for drugs, kicks, and sex! A great science-fiction novel that will blow your mind!
The Vikes were in the saddle riding high - peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only one man stood between them and a world gone mad...
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW is more than a frighteningly dynamic story. It is a savage satire on the perverse thrill-seekers of today - those who turn-on only for drugs, kicks, and sex! A great science-fiction novel that will blow your mind!
- GenresScience Fiction
190 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1956
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About the author
Hunt Collins
10 books3 followersBorn and raised as Salvatore Lombino in New York City.
Legally changed name to his pseudonym Evan Hunter.
Best known by his pseudonym Ed McBain.
Legally changed name to his pseudonym Evan Hunter.
Best known by his pseudonym Ed McBain.
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January 15, 2016
it's the hip and happening future - brought to you by the year 1956!
it's the Vikes versus the Rees! fighting for the soul of humanity! sorta!
Vikes like to groove, man! they embrace the artificiality of pop culture and the sexiness of sexuality - but they don't have sex! they groove on drugs instead, they embrace their addictions. getting high is de rigueur, it's par for the course. they have a uniform: short skirts and painted bare breasts for the chicks, breeches and furry bare chests for the dicks. Vikes rule the entertainment world, in all of its forms.
Rees like it trad, man! they endorse a buttoned-down lifestyle, an abstemious veneer - but they love to fuck! they dig that crazy hypocrisy, that sexy lifestyle behind closed doors, post-marriage. they write their bad reviews and they frown their frowns. they have a uniform: gents in their shirts and ties, ladies in outfits covering them from throat to ankle. Rees have the money and they use it in all sorts of sinister ways.
the future has some crazy violent riots! the future has rape, for guys and dolls alike! the future is all kinds of bad news but it's constantly moving and grooving. dig that crazy scene, man!
Hunt Collins writes like a gum-snapping teenager, one hand on hip, the other pointing a finger right 'atcha. his prose pops; his story speeds forward. he doesn't like to take sides too much; he has equal contempt for both extremes. he sees their flaws and rolls his eyes, snorts his derision. but he has some sympathy too. he gives you some insight into both of those sides. Hunt wants a better world, for his characters and for the world itself. he's turned on by change. I like that about him.
it's the Vikes versus the Rees! fighting for the soul of humanity! sorta!
Vikes like to groove, man! they embrace the artificiality of pop culture and the sexiness of sexuality - but they don't have sex! they groove on drugs instead, they embrace their addictions. getting high is de rigueur, it's par for the course. they have a uniform: short skirts and painted bare breasts for the chicks, breeches and furry bare chests for the dicks. Vikes rule the entertainment world, in all of its forms.
Rees like it trad, man! they endorse a buttoned-down lifestyle, an abstemious veneer - but they love to fuck! they dig that crazy hypocrisy, that sexy lifestyle behind closed doors, post-marriage. they write their bad reviews and they frown their frowns. they have a uniform: gents in their shirts and ties, ladies in outfits covering them from throat to ankle. Rees have the money and they use it in all sorts of sinister ways.
the future has some crazy violent riots! the future has rape, for guys and dolls alike! the future is all kinds of bad news but it's constantly moving and grooving. dig that crazy scene, man!
Hunt Collins writes like a gum-snapping teenager, one hand on hip, the other pointing a finger right 'atcha. his prose pops; his story speeds forward. he doesn't like to take sides too much; he has equal contempt for both extremes. he sees their flaws and rolls his eyes, snorts his derision. but he has some sympathy too. he gives you some insight into both of those sides. Hunt wants a better world, for his characters and for the world itself. he's turned on by change. I like that about him.
September 6, 2018
This is a somewhat dated scifi by popular crime author Ed McBain. It is an early work, published in 1956. I enjoyed this, it wasn't the sort of thing you'd find in 'Astounding' or 'Galaxy', but maybe in the pages of 'IF' if it had hit the slush pile at the right time and had gotten the attention of then editor, Frederik Pohl. It is essentially a projection of a future America based on mid-fifties trends of elevated promiscuity and casual drug use, anticipating the sexual revolution and rebellious recreational drug use of the mid-sixties but failing to predict the anti-war hippy attitude and 'patchouli-stinking' fashion aesthetic. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" hit that mark a bit closer.
July 27, 2019
I had to read an Ed McBain, just so I could say I had done it.
August 6, 2023
Somewhat dated and a bit leering but never the less an interesting read, it was written in 1956 and seems to be a reaction, if not a wry prediction to a possible future which became the drug taking hippy culture of the 60s.
Note - My copy was credited to Ed McBain.
Note - My copy was credited to Ed McBain.
May 12, 2020
The edition I read was credited to Ed McBain.
February 18, 2025
Totally groovy and wavy book man...
I think the main reasons I enjoyed this was more from a place of novelty and quirkiness than anything else. It's an intersting projection of a retro-future that was fun to read, but the actual sci-fi ideas haven't aged very well. It was written by a crime writer and has a strong 60s-pulp flavour - which I am not totally against to be honest. Everyone speaks in a weird future-hippie language, which the narratorial voice echoes. I figure in a longer novel this would outstay its welcome.
The plot itself is compelling enough, it is really a political thriller set in the future. The two factions are a reactionist response to the real-life 60s hippie culture and the conservative opposite extreme. Despite this, I would expect a more conservative outlook in the book. Yet, McBain adopts a less sure conclusion, aligning himself somewhere in the middle. It is in interesting outlook on the line between fantasy and reality and where one should land on that line.
I think the main reasons I enjoyed this was more from a place of novelty and quirkiness than anything else. It's an intersting projection of a retro-future that was fun to read, but the actual sci-fi ideas haven't aged very well. It was written by a crime writer and has a strong 60s-pulp flavour - which I am not totally against to be honest. Everyone speaks in a weird future-hippie language, which the narratorial voice echoes. I figure in a longer novel this would outstay its welcome.
The plot itself is compelling enough, it is really a political thriller set in the future. The two factions are a reactionist response to the real-life 60s hippie culture and the conservative opposite extreme. Despite this, I would expect a more conservative outlook in the book. Yet, McBain adopts a less sure conclusion, aligning himself somewhere in the middle. It is in interesting outlook on the line between fantasy and reality and where one should land on that line.
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