@booklet {9228, title = {Survival World}, year = {1971}, month = {1971}, publisher = {Prestige Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a world devastated by pollution so that starvation has become the norm.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94)} } @booklet {1910, title = {It Was the Day of the Robot}, year = {1963}, note = {

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1964.

}, month = {1963}, publisher = {Belmont}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Computer controlled dystopia. A computer determines whether an individual can marry based on its determination of the genetic characteristics of her or his expected children. It was programmed to ensure that the correct balance of genetic types is\ born, and the novel focuses on a man whose expected children would upset the balance. A sexual alternative is provided by an artificial woman constructed to any desired specifications but with limited intelligence and emotional range. There is also \"emotional illusion therapy\" available. The novel follows the man and the woman he thinks is an android to the \"ruins\" outside the city where the few women are fought over and then to Venus.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94)} } @booklet {9448, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mission to a Distant Star{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Satellite Science Fiction }, volume = {2.3}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964

}, month = {February 1958}, pages = {4-83}, abstract = {

Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94)} } @booklet {9504, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Made to Order{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Future Science Fiction}, volume = {no. 32}, year = {1957}, month = {Spring 1957}, pages = {67-108}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a future where computers choose marriage partners and deny the right to marry based entirely on genetic factors. Sex outside marriage prohibited.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94)} }