TY - ABST T1 - "Smart Alec" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kage [Kate Genevieve] Baker (1952-2010) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which all the health and social worries of the late 20th century have been enforced and become social practice. Children do not play together for fear of disease. Only licensed adults are allowed to hug a child. Only healthy foods are allowed.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 23.9 (284) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 169-201 with a note on 169. 

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

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