Series
Tomorrow's Children
Poul Anderson & F. N. Waldrop · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection · 1947–1961
Tomorrow's Children began as a 1947 novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop imagining a nuclear-war-shattered United States coping with widespread mutation, later expanded into the novel Twilight World, which follows a mutant child whose unusual abilities become central to humanity's uneasy recovery. It is grim, early atomic-age science fiction from the first wave of postwar SF. It stands as an early example of the mutant-hope narrative that became common in Cold War-era fiction.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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By decade
- 1940s2
- 1950s0
- 1960s3
Shape
1 novella · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection
2 authors
reads like:science fictionsurvivalour worldnear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Children of Fortunedarkest
- Twilight Worldbrightest · calmest
- Tomorrow's Childrenmost intense