tfilm@ihuxn.UUCP (12/07/83)
Saturday I read for a second time since 1962 the book that I thought `The Day After' was based on - Philip Wylie's "Tomorrow". It is one of his first and also one of his few 'fictional' books. Although it sometimes reads as if written by a high schooler, it conveys the effects of nuclear war on society in much greater measure than the ill-produced TV show could ever do. I havn't seen any mention of it on the nets, but then I suppose most of our prolific contributors were not alive when it was published in 1954.
budd@bmcg.UUCP (12/09/83)
I'm pretty sure the book you meant to reference is 'Triumph' by Phillip Wylie. If you were correct and the book 'Tomorrow' exists then let me recommend 'Triumph' as an enjoyable(?) book on the same subject. -budd
arlan@inuxd.UUCP (A Andrews) (12/22/83)
Indeed, TOMORROW is actually the name of a good book by Philip Wylie. I'd like to start a discussion that goes like this: Would the world of today and tomorrow have been better off if the events in that book (e.g., primitive nuclear war, annihilation of the Soviet Empire) HAD taken place in 1955? For my opinion, there wouldn't today be a threat to the whole race. We can continue this in net.politics, eh? --Arlan Andrews, [in what used to be Bell Labs, but has had about six name changes since this time last year]--Indianapolis