The Big Tomorrow

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The Big Tomorrow

by Richard S. Shaver

EN·~31 minutes

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Joshua Lake spends his mornings staring at a cloudless sky while his company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. With a dwindling payroll and invoices looming, his clerk Lucy Crane delivers the grim numbers, but Joshua refuses to let fear dictate his next move. Instead, he envisions a daring leap—a rocket that could reach the Moon and return, hoping to turn his modest metal‑casting shop into a launchpad for the future.

The plan sparks a fierce debate with his former partner, Lee Gorman, who dismisses the idea as reckless folly. Their clash pits hard‑headed pragmatism against boundless imagination, forcing Joshua to weigh personal pride against the survival of his business. As the deadline for funding draws near, the tension between what is possible and what is imagined sets the stage for a bold, uncertain venture into the “big tomorrow.

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Language

en

Duration

~31 minutes (30K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2009-09-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Richard S. Shaver

Richard S. Shaver

1907–1975

A pulp-era writer and artist, he became one of the most controversial figures in mid-century speculative fiction through the sensational “Shaver Mystery” stories published in Amazing Stories. His work mixed science fiction, hidden-world mythology, and outsider imagination in a way that still sparks curiosity.

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