Line #28 Literature/NineTomorrows


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3	GenreAnthology of Creator/IsaacAsimov's works, first published in 1959 (printed by {{Creator/Doubleday}}). An alternate title is ''Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future''.
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5	Two works of comic {{poetry}} begin this collection, both playing with the difficulties of writing. The nine numbered ScienceFiction stories each provide a different perspective on what the future might be like. Every story was chosen from the past three years of publishing. This collection was republished in the {{Omnibus}} titled ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1''.
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7	!!Works published in this [[{{Anthology}} collection]]:
8	[[index]]
9	* "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee" (1958)
10	* "Literature/RejectionSlips" (1959)
11	# "{{Literature/Profession}}" (1957)
12	# "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower" (1958)
13	# "Literature/TheDyingNight" (1956)
14	# "Literature/ImInMarsportWithoutHilda" (1957)
15	# "Literature/TheGentleVultures" (1957)
16	# "Literature/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld" (1958)
17	# "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS" (1958)
18	# "Literature/TheLastQuestion" (1956)
19	# "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" (1958)
20	[[/index]]
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22	!!''Nine Tomorrows'' contains examples of:
23	* AdaptationDeviation: The 1966 German translation, ''Unendlichkeit x 5'', contains only five of the original nine stories and none of the poems.
24	* AdvertisingByAssociation: The Creator/DelRey cover from 1985 includes a {{Tagline}} pointing out that Dr Asimov is also the author of the national bestseller ''Literature/FoundationsEdge''.
25	* AlienSky: The 1972 Creator PanBooks cover features two moons in the background, one of which is nearly hidden behind Creator/IsaacAsimov's name.
26	* BilledAboveTheTitle: All of the covers, except for a UK Book Club cover, lists Creator/IsaacAsimov's name before the title. Creator/PanBooks, Creator/DelRey, and Creator/PublicacoesEuropaAmerica have covers where his name is around twice as large as said title.
27	* CoverDrop: In the Creator/DelRey cover from 1985, a monkey wearing a spacesuit with a [[InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace clear faceplate]] is looking over their shoulder at the audience with [[GiganticMoon the Earth in the sky like a giant moon]]. With a bit of ArtisticLicense, this could be intended to be the opening of "Literature/TheGentleVultures", where Captain Devi-en, an alien monkey, is wandering around the surface of the moon in his spacesuit.
28	* {{Dedication}}: This [[{{Anthology}} collection]] is dedicated to Betty Shaplan, for their helpfulness and kindness.
29	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The original 1959 Creator/DoubleDay cover has a greyscale image of space with slight green tinting by the spine, while Creator/IsaacAsimov's name and the Doubleday icon are a solid bright green.
30	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The original 1959 Creator/DoubleDay cover is a very busy greyscale image of space that was probably done because it ''screams'' ScienceFiction, with spaceships, nebulae, and moving rays of light.
31	* DividedForPublication: The 1990 Portuguese translation was split into two volumes; ''Nove Amanhãs: contos do futuro pr‌óximo, 1℃ volume'' contains "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee", "{{Literature/Profession}}", "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower", "Literature/TheDyingNight", and "Literature/ImInMarsportWithoutHilda", while the ''2℃ volume'' contains the other five stories and "Literature/RejectionSlips".
32	* FacelessEye:
33	** The 1969 Creator/FawcettCrest cover has an enormous building which has a cyclopean eye watching as people walk inside.
34	** The 1978 French translation cover, by Creator/PressesPocket, has an eye in space, crying into a sun, with a world similar to Earth used as the iris (no pupil).
35	* FullMoonSilhouette: The 1966 Creator/PanBooks cover has a [[MinimalisticCoverArt black background]] and a cartoonish sun. Inside of the sun, a rocket is blasting off, with black and purple smoke billowing up to obscure the more realistic red and yellow of the sun behind it.
36	* GiganticMoon: In the Creator/DelRey cover from 1985, this is {{Inverted\|Trope}} by showing an Earth from the surface of UsefulNotes/TheMoon that's larger than the head of the person on the cover (and at least twice the arc-size it should be). This cover may have been [[CoverDrop inspired]] by "Literature/TheGentleVultures" from within this [[{{Anthology}} collection]].
37	* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: The Creator/DelRey cover from 1985 has a monkey wearing a spacesuit with a clear faceplate looking over their shoulder at the audience. This cover may have been [[CoverDrop inspired]] by "Literature/TheGentleVultures" from within this [[{{Anthology}} collection]].
38	* MinimalisticCoverArt: The 1966 Creator/PanBooks cover restricts the art to the inside of a single cartoony sun.
39	* ScienceCocktail: The 1960 Creator/BantamBooks cover uses beakers, erlenmeyer flasks, test tubes, and pipes to showcase how much SCIENCE is happening inside.
40	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The title of "Literature/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld" is accidentally published as "All the Troubles in the World" in the table of contents. It is correctly named at the start of the story.
41	* {{Tagline}}:
42	** "Stories of weird and wonderful futures" -- Creator/BantamBooks 1960
43	** "..876543210 9 tomorrows" -- UK science fiction book club 1964
44	** "The best science fiction stories of Creator/IsaacAsimov" -- {{Creator/Moewig}} 1966
45	** "Tales of the Near Future by the Master of Science Fiction" -- Creator/FawcettCrest 1969
46	** "Author of the national bestseller ''Literature/FoundationsEdge''" -- Creator/DelRey 1985 (overlapping with AdvertisingByAssociation)
47	* UsedFuture: The 1972 Creator/PanBooks cover has a junkyard of rusted equipment, including an old spaceship.

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