"Walter Perkins Is Here!"

Title"Walter Perkins Is Here!"
Year for Search1970
AuthorsBanks, Raymond E[ugene](1918-96)
Secondary AuthorsNolan, William F[rancis](1928-2021)
Secondary TitleThe Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories
Pagination147-57 with an editor's note on 146
Date Published1970
PublisherSherbourne Press
Place PublishedLos Angeles, CA
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.

Info Notes

First publication.

Holding Institutions

MoU-St

Author Note

(1918-96)

Full Text

1970 Banks, Raymond E[ugene] (1918-96). “Walter Perkins Is Here!” The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories. Comp. and ed. William F[rancis] Nolan (Los Angeles, CA: Sherbourne Press, 1970), 147-57 with an editor’s note on 146. First publication. MoU-St

Satire on an affluent world in which everyone “belongs” to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.