@booklet {1821, title = {The Joy Makers}, year = {1961}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Crown, 1984 with an \"Introduction\" by George Zebrowski (ix-xi). UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. Sections originally published as \"The Unhappy Man.\"\ Fantastic Universe\ 3.1 (February 1954): 4-30; \"The Joy Ride\" [Rpt. here as \"The Naked Sky\"].\ Startling Stories\ 33.3 (Fall 1955): 10-48; and rpt. under the original title in his\ The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality\ (New York: Charles Scribner\&$\#$39;s Sons, 1975), 55-123]; and \"Name Your Pleasure.\"\ Thrilling Wonder Stories\ 44.3 (Winter 1955): 10-53.

}, month = {1961}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A company, Hedonics, Inc., that develops a system that sells happiness, becomes the sole power and gradually takes over the entire economic, political, and social systems and controls all aspects of people\&$\#$39;s lives. Power corrupts and the focus changes to those in power staying there. An underground opposition movement develops and leaves Earth. The last section shows a developing society with problems on Venus and an essentially abandoned Earth.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James [Edwin] Gunn (1923-2020)} }