"Greetings"
| Title | "Greetings" |
| Year for Search | 2003 |
| Authors | Bisson, Terry [Ballantine](1942-2024) |
| Secondary Title | SciFiction |
| Date Published | 2003 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A story with a theme similar to Trollope’s (1881-2) “The Fixed Period” and others in which there is an agreement to die at a certain age and the effects on people as they approach that age to die, including, in this case, a resistance movement. In the story, people are chosen by lot for the Sunset Brigade and are informed ten days before they must appear. Many people who are terminally ill volunteer, but improved medical care for the young, means that the age at which people are chosen must be lowered, with the man chosen in the story being 70. A “hemlock kit” is provided for those who choose to die at home. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Greetings and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005), 191-276. |
| URL | www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted September 3 - October 15, 2003). No longer available on line. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1942-2024) |
| Full Text | 2003 Bisson, Terry [Ballantine] (1942-2024). “Greetings.” SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted September 3 - October 15, 2003. No longer available online. Rpt. in his Greetings and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005), 191-276. PSt A story with a theme similar to Trollope’s (1881-2) “The Fixed Period” and others in which there is an agreement to die at a certain age and the effects on people as they approach that age to die, including, in this case, a resistance movement. In the story, people are chosen by lot for the Sunset Brigade and are informed ten days before they must appear. Many people who are terminally ill volunteer, but improved medical care for the young, means that the age at which people are chosen must be lowered, with the man chosen in the story being 70. A “hemlock kit” is provided for those who choose to die at home. |
