TY - ABST T1 - "The Crooked Man" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which heterosexuality is illegal and heterosexuals are hunted. An operation is then required that makes everyone homosexual.

JF - Playboy VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Hunger, and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958), 139-48; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 106-13; in his The Fiend (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971), 61-71; and in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 274-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Beautiful People" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people are all made beautiful. One girl resists.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Beautiful Woman.” Nebula Science Fiction (Glasgow, Scot.) 1.3 (Summer 1953): 46-62. Broadcast adapted by John Tomerlin as “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” Twilight Zone. Season 5, Episode 17 (January 24, 1964). 

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Merril

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