@booklet {8901, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Place of the Gods{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Saturday Evening Post}, volume = {219.5}, year = {1937}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. as \“By the Waters of Babylon.\” In his Thirteen O\’Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (New York: Farrar \& Rinehart, [1937]), 3-20; in\ The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Pocket Books, 1943), 1-16; in\ The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 103-17;\ in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 103-17 with an editor\’s note on 104;\ and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 247-49 with an editor\’s note on 247.

}, month = {July 1937}, pages = {10-11, 59-60}, abstract = {

After an unexplained catastrophe called the Great Burning, a religious society has developed with strict taboos on travel to certain areas thought of as the place of the gods. Since metal is scarce and has been scavenged from most areas where travel is permitted, one man goes into the forbidden areas and discovers the ruins of the previous civilization.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Stephen Vincent Ben{\'e}t (1898-1943)} }