@booklet {11599, title = {"Sterile Planet"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories}, volume = {19.5}, year = {1937}, note = {

Rpt. in Nature\’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 113-143.

}, month = {July 1937}, pages = {52-73}, abstract = {

The sterile planet is Earth in 4260 because humans had ignored the prophecies of the early twentieth century and had \“denuded the forests, plowed up the soil, meddled recklessly with the delicate balance of nature\” (52). The story is primarily concerned with a battle between the so-called civilized and those who had been left behind when the last places with water had been captured and enclosed and a conflict between the authoritarian leader of the \“civilized\” and a scientist with a plan to restore Earth.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} }