Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.
BT - Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction C5 -Can, Merril, MoU-St
C6 -The author (1938-93) was a Professor of English at Queen's University (Canada) at the time of publication.
C7 - 1992 CY - Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada DA - 01/1992 LA - eng N2 -Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.
PB - Pottersfield Press PP - Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada PY - 1992 SP - 95 EP - 123 T2 - Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction TI - "Scenes From Successive Futures" ER -