"Temptress of Planet Delight"
| Year for Search |
1953
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| Secondary Title |
Planet Stories
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| Author | |
| Annotation |
Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained. |
| Volume / Edition |
5.12
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| Pagination |
4-31
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| Published Date |
May 1953 |
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| Full Text |
1953 Curtis, Betsy [Elizabeth M.] (1918-2002). “Temptress of Planet Delight.” Planet Stories 5.12 (May 1953): 4-31. Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31. C, Merril Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained. Female author. |
| Additional Publishers |
Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31. |
| Author Note |
Female author (1918-2002). |
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