Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.
BT - Analog Science Fact and Fiction C5 -Merril, PSt
C6 -Female author (b. 1948).
C7 - January 1990 DA - 01/1990 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28.
N2 -Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.
PY - 1990 SP - 106 EP - 28 T2 - Analog Science Fact and Fiction TI - "Inertia" VL - 110.1& 2 SN - 1059-2113 ER -