The Tomorrow File

The Tomorrow File

-excerpts

by: Lawrence Sanders

Lawrence Sanders, Mr. Bestseller. Below you will find some excerpts from the simple most provocative thriller by the superstar author of THE FIRST DEADLY SIN. It is his million-copy thriller about the nightmare of tomorrow of planned sex and casual terror, where a man and woman who dare to love are hunted as dangerous criminals.

Why have I included these excerpts on our site?

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Two reasons:

1. I’ve just finished reading the book and though, it was written in the early 70s, and it was written about the future, the late 90s, the excerpts “wigged” me out. See if they have the same effect on you.
2. It has turned into excerpt day, search around and you’ll find some excerpts from chapter 2: why? Of SEED’S SKETCHY RELATIONSHIP THEORIES. Okay, 3 reasons;
3. Why not promote other authors that we’ve enjoyed?

That’s all for now. Enjoy the excerpts and while you at it, remember to visit http://www.seedenterprises.com/ and purchase a copy or our book.

excerpts

Remember, the following was written in the 70s and he’s forecasting the 90s. Enjoy!

…“Illegal?” he demanded. “then change the laws. Tradition? As ephemeral as slavery and dueling. Morality? Someone said it’s all a matter of time and geography. Religion? Valuable, but only as a function of the state. Social order? It is what the government says it is. Yes, the solutions we propose are radical. Or may appear radical. Because the problems are new. Have never been faced before. Zero population growth. Energy crunch. World-wide terrorism. Ecological decay. Genetic engineering. Nuclear blackmail. All relatively new problems. That not only demand new solutions, as Nick said, but demand a new way of computing. Of seeing the interdependence of all human activities. A lot of things have been cherished for a long, long time will have to go. Must go! There are no absolutes. Free elections? Free speech? The Bill of Rights? Freedom of worship? Personal privacy? They’ve all been restricted during times of crisis. And they are all relatively young concepts. Some of them less than two hundred years old. They worked well for that timespan. But we can no longer afford them. We must compute new concepts, a new Bill of Rights, to see us through the approaching crisis. And it is coming. As certainly as I know the reality of our presence here, in this room, I know it is coming. And the only way to even begin to cope is put away the slogans of yesterday, the shibboleths of today’s political system and social organization. I put it to you this way: Is there one of you who would not voluntarily relinquish your individual freedom if, by relinquishing that freedom, you helped guarantee the survival of the human species? That is not just a ‘what if’ question. It is an exact statement of the choice we may be facing… Because only strange new ideas can ensure the survival of our society. Of our species. That is what we’re really talking about---survival. The Department of Creative Science will be the first step toward bringing science and technology into a policymaking role in the US Government. Reject it, and you reject the future.”…

…About ten days later, I was in Bismarck, North Dakota, addressing the annual convention of the Association of US Historians. I was not about to tell historians that history was inoperative. That I no longer offered precedents. Some of my remarks:

“As historians, you must know that most civilizations have perished. Or are perishing. Birth, growth, stop. It is the fate of most objects and most societies. Some in a wink, some longer. Some by interior rot, some by external aggression…”

“…Basically, PT is based on the realization that food was then in short supply and would be for the foreseeable future. Therefore food must be used strategically and tactically as an offensive weapon. Since we could not feed the entire world, we could best serve our won interests by our choice of who buys our wheat, who gets our corn, who is shipped enough soybeans and fertilizer to allow them to continue to exist as viable nations. And at what level of subsistence. Some nations inimical to us would have to go down the pipe. Others we could maintain at a starvation level, a malnutrition level, or, if we wished, a comfortable level approximating our own calorie-consumption rate…”

I hope that you’ve enjoyed the excerpts. Do you see why I’m wigged out? I suggest buying Mr. Sanders book. It’s a good read. While at it pick up a copy or our first book.

His future may have passed, but it seems to be upon us now and if we don’t get a grasp on some of this shit, I suggest: DUCKING.

See you soon!