explorer / books · 1956
The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1955 by Doubleday · 222 pages
Hugo · 1956
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This book is recorded on the Hugo ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
In a post-nuclear America where a constitutional amendment forbids any community from growing larger than a thousand people, young Len Colter becomes obsessed with legends of Bartorstown, a hidden settlement where scientists are rumored to have preserved forbidden technology. His dangerous quest forces him to confront the tension between the safety of agrarian simplicity and humanity's irrepressible drive toward knowledge and progress.
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