@booklet {2574, title = {"Faulty Register"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {4-24}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2602, title = {"IMT"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. in her\ Starshadows: Ten Stories\ (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {43-62}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pamela Sargent (b. 1948)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2560, title = {"Lone Warrior"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {26-40 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 25}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2623, title = {"Rope of Glass"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {151-66}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2603, title = {"The Weariest River"}, howpublished = {Future City}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his\ Caution! Inflammable!\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {108-48}, publisher = {Trident Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in \&$\#$39;kraals\&$\#$39; where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86)}, editor = {Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007)} } @booklet {2615, title = {"When Petals Fall"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {85-105}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {11680, title = {"Alien Night"}, howpublished = {Science Fiction Adventures}, volume = {1.5}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176.

}, month = {August 1957}, pages = {43-87}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: \“Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86)} }