"Scenes From Successive Futures"

Year for Search
1992
Secondary Title
Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction
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Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.

Pagination
95-123
Published Date

1992

Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Place Published
Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada
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1992 Marshall, Tom (1938-93). “Scenes From Successive Futures.” In Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction. Ed. Lesley Choyce (Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1992), 95-123. Can, Merril, MoU-St

Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction. The author was a Professor of English at Queen’s University (Canada) at the time of publication.

Author Note

The author (1938-93) was a Professor of English at Queen's University (Canada) at the time of publication.

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