"Demokratus."
| Year for Search |
1997
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| Secondary Title |
Free Space
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| Annotation |
The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with. |
| Pagination |
197-220
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| Published Date |
1997 |
| Publisher |
Tor
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| Place Published |
New York
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| ISBN Number |
0-312-85957-0
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| Full Text |
1997 Koman, Victor (b. 1944). “Demokratus.” Free Space. Ed. Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 197-220. PSt The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with. |
| Author Note |
(b. 1954) |
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