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14-DEC-2025 | Excerpt from “Journey Beyond Tomorrow” by Robert Sheckley

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Dan Bogachek
December 14, 2025

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Excerpt from “Journey Beyond Tomorrow” by Robert Sheckley

Joenes’s fabulous world is more than a thousand years behind us, in the remote and misty past. We know that Joenes’s Journey began around the year 2000, and ended in the opening years of our own era. We also know that the age through which Joenes traveled was remarkable for its industrial civilizations. Twenty-first-century mechanical articulation gave rise to many strange artifacts that no present-day reader has ever encountered. Still, most of us have learned at one time or another what the ancients meant by “guided missile,” or “atom bomb.” Fragments of some of these fantastic creations can be seen in many museums. 🏁

Exposition can be a remarkable tool for social commentary.

As we read, it dawns on us that something has gone very very wrong. What’s happened? Sheckley’s hints leave it to our imagination to piece together the answer.