TY - STAND KW - Male author KW - US author AU - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) AB -
Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”
BT - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction C5 -Merril
C6 -(b. 1950)
C7 - October/November 1997 DA - 10/1997 LA - eng N2 -Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”
PY - 1997 SP - 167 EP - 81 T2 - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction TI - "Like the Gentle Rain" VL - 93.4 SN - Magazine of of Fantasy and Science Fiction ER -