@booklet {4839, title = {"Like the Gentle Rain"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = { 93.4 }, year = {1997}, month = {October/November 1997}, pages = {167-81}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author\’s note on 167 says that the story \“was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal\’s essay \‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul\’.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {Magazine of of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, author = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} }