Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Science Fiction

(alternate titles: All the Sounds of Fear; The Time of the Eye)
1971

Ellison's first greatest-hits collection, a 10-year retrospective with particular emphasis (as the subtitle makes clear) on tales of alienation.

Some picks are obviously worthy ("'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"), others less so ("Life Hutch"). And the absence, for whatever reason, of "A Boy and His Dog," "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" and several other examples of Ellison's best makes this a something-less-than complete retrospective of his work to this point.

In Great Britain, the book was released in paperback in two volumes, All the Sounds of Fear and The Time of the Eye.

Contents

• Introduction: The Song of the Soul
• 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
• Introduction, In Brief (Time of the Eye only)
• 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