The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world's most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . .

1959 Appel, Benjamin (1907-77). The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world’s most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . . . New York: Ballantine Books. Also published as The Death Master. New York: Popular Library, [1980]. N, PSt

Two worlds are shown, the Pleasure State and the Reservation. The Reservation has no machinery invented after 1879. The Pleasure State is a computer controlled eutopia based solely on pleasure. But there is a weapon that could destroy the world, and this report is by someone from the Reservation who is about the search for it. The report sees the Reservation positively and the Pleasure State, known in the Reservation as the Funhouse, negatively. The author's papers are at the University of Oregon.