"Blood of Tyrants"

Title"Blood of Tyrants"
Year for Search1970
AuthorsBova, Ben[jamin William](1932-2020)
Secondary TitleAmazing Stories
Volume / Edition44.1
Pagination16-27
Date PublishedMay 1970
ISSN Number0002-6891
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia. A plan to educate teenage gang leaders and then have them lead their former gangs to a less violent life backfires in that the gang leaders use their knowledge to organize to gain power.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Forward in Time: A Science Fiction Story Collection (New York: Walker & Co., 1973), 17-34; and in The Best of Bova. 3 vols. (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 1: 113-131.

Holding Institutions

MoU-St, PSt

Author Note

(1932-2020)

Full Text

1970 Bova, Ben[jamin William] (b. 1932). “Blood of Tyrants.” Amazing Stories 44.1 (May 1970): 16-27. Rpt. in his Forward in Time: A Science Fiction Story Collection (New York: Walker & Co., 1973), 17-34; and in The Best of Bova. 3 vols. (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 1: 113-131. MoU-St, PSt

Dystopia. A plan to educate teenage gang leaders and then have them lead their former gangs to a less violent life backfires in that the gang leaders use their knowledge to organize to gain power.