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1 Sci-fi Realism : M Barnard Eldershaw's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Thomas Moran , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 248 2022; (p. 3-14) 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a book that has remained an enigma since it was first published in a heavily censored form in 1947. Not only was it censored, but its publication was delayed due to wartime paper shortages, and one of the early uncensored manuscripts was lost between Adelaide and Melbourne. Even after the publication of an uncensored edition by Virago in 1983, the book continues to elude critics, and this elusive quality has only increased in the 21st century. with the book no longer in print. Nonetheless, it remains something of a cult classic among connoisseurs of Australian literary obscurities, with Patrick White as its most famous advocate. It is a book in which social realism is displaced by science fiction as the form best suited to combating Australian capitalism. Needless to say, it is a book that is very ambitious and very strange.' (Introduction)
 
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