A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.
BT - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine C2 -Illus. Pat Morrissey (b. 1954)
C6 -(b. 1950)
C7 - March 1990 DA - 03/1990 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.
N2 -A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.
PY - 1990 SN - 978-1-64524-058-7 /1065-6298 SP - 56 EP - 75 T2 - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine TI - “Buddha Nostril Bird” VL - 14.3 (154) ER -