@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)} } @booklet {10302, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Boy With Five Fingers{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Startling Stories}, volume = {28.3}, year = {1953}, note = {

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 271-74.\ 

}, month = {January 1953}, pages = {58-60}, abstract = {

Short story set in a future where the people are all mutants brought about by past atomic wars told from the perspective of a boy who is normal by past standards, sees his future world as clearly better than the past, and is glad that their Basic Rule is that everyone has the right to be different.

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