To-day and To-morrow (sometimes written Today and Tomorrow) was a series of 110[ citation needed] speculative essays published as short books by the London publishers Kegan Paul between 1923 and 1931 (and published in the United States by E. P. Dutton, New York). [1] As Fredric Warburg proudly recalled in 1959:
It was a unique publishing event. Many now distinguished personages made their debut in this series or contributed an early work. [2]
The series was one of several series initiated at Kegan Paul by C. K. Ogden. The first essay to appear, in November 1923, was J. B. S. Haldane's Daedalus; or, Science and the Future, an extended version of a lecture to the Heretics Society at Cambridge University on 4 February 1923. [3]
In 1926 Evelyn Waugh offered to provide a book in the series to be called Noah; or the Future of Intoxication. Though completed in 1927, Waugh's manuscript was rejected for the series and never appeared. [4]
Brian Stableford noted that the To-day and To-morrow series provided "an important stimulus to the discussion of future possibilities among the British intelligensia", and hence an increased interest in fiction extrapolating the ideas the series discussed. [5] The work of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in the series influenced later science fiction writers like Olaf Stapledon. [6] Many of the contributors to the To-day and To-morrow series had either written science fiction before ( Winifred Holtby, Muriel Jaeger) or would write it after contributing pamphlets to the series ( Gerald Heard, J. Leslie Mitchell, John Gloag). [5]
To-day and To-morrow (sometimes written Today and Tomorrow) was a series of 110[ citation needed] speculative essays published as short books by the London publishers Kegan Paul between 1923 and 1931 (and published in the United States by E. P. Dutton, New York). [1] As Fredric Warburg proudly recalled in 1959:
It was a unique publishing event. Many now distinguished personages made their debut in this series or contributed an early work. [2]
The series was one of several series initiated at Kegan Paul by C. K. Ogden. The first essay to appear, in November 1923, was J. B. S. Haldane's Daedalus; or, Science and the Future, an extended version of a lecture to the Heretics Society at Cambridge University on 4 February 1923. [3]
In 1926 Evelyn Waugh offered to provide a book in the series to be called Noah; or the Future of Intoxication. Though completed in 1927, Waugh's manuscript was rejected for the series and never appeared. [4]
Brian Stableford noted that the To-day and To-morrow series provided "an important stimulus to the discussion of future possibilities among the British intelligensia", and hence an increased interest in fiction extrapolating the ideas the series discussed. [5] The work of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in the series influenced later science fiction writers like Olaf Stapledon. [6] Many of the contributors to the To-day and To-morrow series had either written science fiction before ( Winifred Holtby, Muriel Jaeger) or would write it after contributing pamphlets to the series ( Gerald Heard, J. Leslie Mitchell, John Gloag). [5]