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Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
First edition
Author	Harlan Ellison
Cover artist	Brad Johannsen
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Macmillan Publishers
Publication date	1971
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	277

Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction is a collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison. Published in the United States in 1971, it as a ten-year retrospective of Ellison's short stories. It was later published in the United Kingdom in two volumes as All the Sounds of Fear in 1973 and The Time of the Eye in 1974 (the 1974 volume only containing a new introduction). All of the stories in this collection center around isolation and alienation, and were selected from previous short story collections to fit this theme.

The book was dedicated to, among others, four student protesters who were killed in the Kent State shootings of 1970. This dedication prompted a response from a reader calling the students "hooligans" who were "Communist-led radical revolutionaries and anarchists, and deserved to be shot". This letter was reprinted in the introduction to Ellison's subsequent 1974 short story collection Approaching Oblivion. Ellison states that this letter frightened him and was one of the things that led him to change that collection from a call to action to a cry of frustration and disillusionment.

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
"The Discarded"
"Deeper Than the Darkness"
"Blind Lightning"
"All the Sounds of Fear"
"The Silver Corridor"
""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman"
"Bright Eyes"
"Are You Listening?"
"Try a Dull Knife"
"In Lonely Lands"
"Eyes of Dust"
"Nothing for My Noon Meal"
"O Ye of Little Faith"
"The Time of the Eye"
"Life Hutch"
"The Very Last Day of a Good Woman"
"Night Vigil"
"Lonelyache"
"Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes"

Notes

Ellison, Harlan, Approaching Oblivion, Walker and Company New York, 1974. p 13 A photocopy of the letter is included in the introduction.

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Bibliography
Novels and novellas	Web of the City Spider Kiss A Boy and His Dog Mefisto in Onyx
Short story collections	The Deadly Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Paingod and Other Delusions Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Alone Against Tomorrow Approaching Oblivion Deathbird Stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Slippage Can & Can'tankerous
Short stories	”Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans” “The Beast that Shouted Love at The Heart of the World” “Croatoan” “The Deathbird” “The Discarded” “The Dragon on the Bookshelf” “From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet” “The Function of Dream Sleep” “How Interesting: A Tiny Man” “How's the Night Life on Cissalda?” “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” “Jeffty Is Five” “Paladin of the Lost Hour” “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” “"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman” “Soldier from Tomorrow” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”
Collaborations	Phoenix Without Ashes Mind Fields
Television work	"Soldier" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "The City on the Edge of Forever" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Gramma" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "A View from the Gallery" "Objects in Motion"
Consultant	Babylon 5 The Gathering In the Beginning Thirdspace The River of Souls A Call to Arms
Adaptations	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "The Human Operators" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Shatterday" A Boy and His Dog (1975 film) "Djinn, No Chaser"
Anthologies edited	Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions Medea: Harlan's World The Last Dangerous Visions
Non-fiction	Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat Harlan Ellison's Watching The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

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