essay on:

Reaching for Tomorrow

student: Jesus Ricardo Rodriguez Diaz

Subject: English

Agu/16
Reaching Tomorrow is a compilation novel of approximately 12 stories which are:

RESCUE GAME (1946)

A WALK IN THE DARK (1950)
THE FORGOTTEN ENEMY (1953)
TECHNICAL ERROR (1950)
THE PARASITE (1953)
THE INTERIOR FIRES (1949)
THE AWAKENING (1951)
PROBLEMS WITH THE NATIVES (1951)
THE CURSE (1953)
ARROW OF TIME (1952)
JUPITER FIVE (1953
THE POSSESSED (1952)

Personally, the most important and interesting stories were THE PARASITE, THE
INTERIOR FIRES or THE ARROW OF TIME.

The parasite: The story of the parasite tells the story of an entity that comes to our planet
from the future and Roy along with Conolly Jack and Pearson star in a terrible story that
goes around between the 50s, a time in which parents were concerned about the future
generations political and social uncertainty damaged the thoughts of those men they only
wanted their generations to be free from the terrible wars that tormented their ancestors. out
of nowhere late at night a strange and shocking light hits the surface of our planet is a
locality that the writer never specified, it is only well known that Roy is with Conolly and
that sadly one of the two would be infected, the end is something bittersweet since Roy
would shoot his beloved Conolly since this is the infected one and this would make him in
an outburst kill her in cold blood.

The internal fires is a very short story that induces us as if we were reading a report, but
when we go to the body of said report, the writing takes on a very particular narrative
where it is the core of the story. Despite its simplicity, the characters are interesting and the
ending makes us return to the initial characters in a surprising way.
Time Arrow is a story that shows us the unintended consequences of a journey through
time. The story follows a group of scientists, two geologists (Barton and Davis) and a
paleontologist (Fowler), who are excavating dinosaur tracks. They come across two
physicists (Barnes and Henderson) who are investigating a strange liquid exhibiting
negentropy, which Davis describes as similar to "The Arrow of Time" as "Any clock you
want to mention, a pendulum for example, could work with the same ease. forward as well
as backward. But entropy is strictly a one-way affair: it always increases with the passage
of time. Hence the expression, 'Arrow of time.' This causes the realization that negentropy
could result in a reversal of time.

Fowler is invited to visit Henderson's lab, during which time the two geologists come to
believe that the physicist is trying to effectively construct a way to see the past firsthand.
Henderson confirms his conclusion and asks Fowler to join him during the first test run of
the machine. The excavation continues and the team discovers that the footprints give the
impression that the dinosaur was chasing something. Fowler makes his way to the lab via
Jeep, shortly after which Davis sees the lab explode and the surrounding area shake. He
returns to alert Barton, who has discovered that the dinosaur tracks are accompanied by
Jeep tire tracks, implying that the dinosaur had chased and subsequently