On the way to the world of tomorrow
En route to the world of tomorrow is a book series of utopian stories and science fiction novels , published by Reader's Digest - Das Beste . There are a total of 50 hardcover volumes in this series that were published between 1985 and 1995. Each book has illustrated appendices to match the story told and the time it was written.
In order to put the books in the correct order, there is a consecutive number on the first pages of each volume, which, however, does not begin with 101 for internal reasons.
The full list
| Volume 101 | - A man in a strange world - Robert A. Heinlein |
| Volume 102 | - Journey to the center of the earth - Jules Verne |
| - The War of the Worlds - HG Wells | |
| Volume 103 | - The tunnel - Bernhard Kellermann |
| Volume 104 | - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury |
| - 2001, A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Volume 105 | - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley |
| - The Bell Trees - Alan Dean Foster | |
| Volume 106 | - I, the robot - Isaac Asimov |
| - The planet of the apes - Pierre Boulle | |
| Volume 107 | - The Triffids - John Wyndham |
| - The expedition of the Space Beagle - AE van Vogt | |
| Volume 108 | - The multiple person - Ben Bova |
| - The toddler - Arkadi and Boris Strugazki | |
| Volume 109 | - The ivory tower - Herbert W. Franke |
| - The Thinking Forests - Alan Dean Foster | |
| Volume 110 | - The Mars Chronicles - Ray Bradbury |
| - At night the strangers came (monkey station) - Chad Oliver | |
| Volume 111 | - A handful of Venus and honorable merchants - Frederik Pohl , Cyril M. Kornbluth |
| - Hestia - CJ Cherryh | |
| Volume 112 | - From star to star - Robert A. Heinlein |
| - Outland - Alan Dean Foster | |
| Volume 113 | - The Steel Caves - Isaac Asimov |
| - When the past was lost - Robert Silverberg | |
| Volume 114 | - Enemy from space - Poul Anderson |
| - Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater - Kit Pedler , Gerry Davis | |
| Volume 115 | - Farmer in Space - Robert A. Heinlein |
| - Orbitsville - Bob Shaw | |
| Volume 116 | - Life without End - George R. Stewart |
| - Disruptive factor - Eric Frank Russell | |
| Volume 117 | That Thing from Another World - Alan Dean Foster |
| - The wanderings of Mr. Green - Philip José Farmer | |
| Volume 118 | - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg |
| - The stars are drawing closer - Robert Silverberg | |
| Volume 119 | - It happened on day X - John Wyndham |
| - The forgotten world - Conan Doyle | |
| Volume 120 | - The Street of the Gods - Martin Caidin |
| - The naked sun - Isaac Asimov | |
| Volume 121 | - The colony - Ben Bova |
| - World without violence - Damon Knight | |
| Volume 122 | - The people of Santaroga - Frank Herbert |
| - The Mutant's Great Adventure - Andre Norton | |
| Volume 123 | - Brothers under a strange sun - Chad Oliver |
| - When the octopus awakens - John Wyndham | |
| Volume 124 | - Planet of Criminals - Robert Sheckley |
| - Captain Aesop and the Stranger's Ship - Bob Shaw | |
| Volume 125 | - The Hero of Avalon - Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle , Steven Barnes |
| - Abercrombie space station - Jack Vance | |
| Volume 126 | - People, Martians and Machines - Eric Frank Russell |
| - New York 1999 - Harry Harrison | |
| Volume 127 | - Earth Child - Sharon Webb |
| - The thought network - Herbert W. Franke | |
| Volume 128 | - The genius - Rainer Erler |
| - The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Volume 129 | - The Millennium Plan - Isaac Asimov |
| - Pioneers of the Cosmos - Gordon R. Dickson | |
| Volume 130 | - The gentle monsters - Ira Levin |
| - Donovan's dream - Frederik Pohl | |
| Volume 131 | - The colonizer - John Brunner |
| - Bruno's frozen days - Anders Bodelsen | |
| Volume 132 | - Escape into today - Karl Alexander |
| - The Sting of the Wasp - Eric Frank Russell | |
| Volume 133 | - When the sky caught fire - Ben Bova |
| - Hunted by humans - Thomas Mielke | |
| Volume 134 | - The rebellion of the shooter Cade - Cyril Judd |
| - Trauma - PJO´Shaughnessy | |
| Volume 135 | - Earth Song - Sharon Webb |
| - The Whispering Center - H.Buwert , RM Hahn | |
| Volume 136 | - Until the end of all hope - Detlev P. Adler |
| - Back to the Future - George Gipe | |
| Volume 137 | - Joshua Nobody's Son - Nancy Freedman |
| - The city in the stars - Thomas Mielke | |
| Volume 138 | - The Choice of Achilles - Larry Niven , Steven Barnes |
| - Marune: Alastor 933 - Jack Vance | |
| Volume 139 | - Midas - Wolfgang Jeschke |
| - Isher's arms dealers - AE van Vogt | |
| Volume 140 | - The Star Kings - Edmond Hamilton |
| - The giant - Rainer Erler | |
| Volume 141 | - My brother's keeper - Charles Sheffield |
| - The Colonists of Terras - Robert Silverberg | |
| Volume 142 | - Land's End - Jack Williamson , Frederik Pohl |
| - The Green Isles - Bob Shaw | |
| Volume 143 | - Mission Starchild - Jerry Oltion |
| - The Alien Virus - Joe Haldeman | |
| Volume 144 | - Invasion out of nowhere - Joseph Green |
| - Kallocain - Karin Boye | |
| Volume 145 | - Isher's armory - AE van Vogt |
| - The dead city - William Voltz | |
| Volume 146 | - A thousand billion happy people - James Blish , Norman L. Knight |
| - Planet of Dreamers - John D. MacDonald | |
| Volume 147 | - Giants - Wolfgang Hohlbein , Frank Rehfeld |
| - The home of the astronauts - Edmond Hamilton | |
| Volume 148 | - Superhuman Invasion - Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
| - Dreaming Earth - John Brunner | |
| Volume 149 | - Mirror door in the sea - Mária Szepes |
| - In the galactic realm - Gordon R. Dickson | |
| Volume 150 | - Wild Talents - Anne McCaffrey |
| - Lucky Starr, the space ranger - Isaac Asimov |