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To-day and To-morrow (sometimes written Today and Tomorrow) was a series of over 150 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). As Fredric Warburg proudly recalled in 1959: ==Content and reception== 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.〔Brian Stableford, (Biotechnology and Speculative Fiction )〕 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.〔David Wykes, ''Evelyn Waugh: a literary life'', Palgrave Macmillan, 1999, p. 38〕 ;Influence on fiction 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.〔Brian Stableford, ''Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature''. Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 0810849380, (p. 358).〕 The work of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in the series influenced later science fiction writers like Olaf Stapledon.〔Neil Barron, ''Anatomy Of Wonder: a Critical Guide to Science Fiction''. Libraries Unlimited, Incorporated, 2004 .ISBN 1591581710 (p. 29)〕 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).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「To-day and To-morrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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