The Long Tomorrow
| Title | The Long Tomorrow |
| Year for Search | 1955 |
| Authors | Brackett, Leigh [Douglass](1915-78) |
| Date Published | 1955 |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Place Published | Garden City, NY |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. |
| Info Notes | The author also used name Leigh Brackett Hamilton, and the book is copyrighted under that name. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1915-78). |
| Full Text | 1955 Brackett, Leigh [Douglass] (1915-78). The Long Tomorrow. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 367-584 with “Biographical Notes” (780-81) “Notes on the text” (786-87) and “Notes” (800). The author also used the name Leigh Brackett Hamilton, and the original book is copyrighted under that name. DLC, PSt After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads “No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.” Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology. |
