AFTER SOME TOMORROW
BY MACK REYNOLDS
Alan’s plan might save the race from extinction—but he was the clan’s only husband and had to be protected from his own folly....
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BEFORE THE FIRST SHOTS rang out, Alan had been sitting with some twenty young people of the Wolf clan in a grove of aspen approximately half way between the fields and the citadel on the hill-top. He had been teaching them myth-legend and, as usual, the girls were bored and unbelieving, the boys open mouthed.
He realized, even as he spoke, that the telling had changed even since his own youth. As a boy of ten, before it was definitely known whether or not he was a sterilie, he had sat at the feet of the Turtle clan’s husband as open mouthed as those who sat at his feet now. But the telling was different. N
