@booklet {3135, title = {"The Chance"}, howpublished = {War Crimes}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 261-96; U.K. ed. (London: Faber \& Faber, 1995), 191-96; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 495-525; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 239-68.\ 

}, month = {1979}, pages = {73-121}, publisher = {University of Queensland Press}, address = {St. Lucia, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia based on the ability to participate in a genetic lottery (the Chance) in which body types can be changed. The Chance is run by aliens who have arrived on Earth as merchants. Conflicts develop between those opting for beauty, those choosing not to change, and those who opt for ugliness.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Peter Carey (b. 1943)} }