@booklet {2253, title = {"Dancing Gerontius"}, howpublished = {Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) }, volume = {1.2 }, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in\ The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191.\ 

}, month = {December 1969}, pages = {48-54}, abstract = {

The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)} }