The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex.
BT - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology C6 -The Israeli author (b. 1930) was born in Argentina, lived in Chile from shortly after his birth until, after attending the State Technical University in Chile, he studied textile engineering in the U.S., returned to Chile, and then moved to Israel, where he was a textile designer, an active Mason who became Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Israel in 1996, published on Freemasonry, and was Honorary Consul of Chile in Tel Aviv.
C7 - 1986 CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. DA - 01/1986 LA - eng N2 -The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex.
PB - Penguin Books PP - Harmondsworth, Eng. PY - 1986 RN -First publication
SN - 9780140080674 SP - 78 EP - 97 T2 - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology TI - “The Whore of Babylon” ER -