"J-Line To Nowhere"

Year for Search
1969
Secondary Title
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Author
Annotation

Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside. 

Volume / Edition
37.3
Pagination
11-127
Published Date

September 1969

ISSN Number
00024-984X
ISBN Number
978-1-61037-338-8
Keywords
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1969 Henderson, Zenna [Charlson] (1917-83). “J-Line to Nowhere.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 37.3 (September 1969): 11-127. Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96. PSt, SFF

Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside. Female author.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.

Author Note

Female author (1917-83).

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