TY - ABST T1 - "This Crowded Earth" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 38.10 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.

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