@booklet {1113, title = {"City of the Corporate Mind"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories }, volume = {24.4}, year = {1939}, month = {December 1939}, pages = {45-70}, abstract = {

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, \"Past, Present and Future\" and \"City of the Rocket Horde\" and 1939 Schachner, \"City of the Cosmic Rays\".\ The city in this story in designed like a human body with a brain and subordinate parts functioning under the control of the brain.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {1114, title = {"City of the Cosmic Rays"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction }, volume = {23.5 }, year = {1939}, month = {July 1939}, pages = {47-66}, abstract = {

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, \“Past, Present and Future\” and \“City of the Rocket Horde\” and 1938 Schachner, \“City of the Corporate Mind\”. In this story, each, entirely different individual lives in a transparent cube.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {1087, title = {"Island of the Individualists"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = { 21.3}, year = {1938}, month = {May 1938}, pages = {42-62}, abstract = {

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, \“Past, Present and Future\” and \“City of the Rocket Horde\” and 1939 Schachner, \“City of the Corporate Mind\” and \“City of the Cosmic Rays\”. In this story, the protagonists land on an island of isolated individuals who spend their entire lives in contemplation.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {1057, title = {"City of the Rocket Horde"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories }, volume = {20.4 }, year = {1937}, month = {December 1937}, pages = {112-35}, abstract = {

Dystopia in sequel to 1937 Schachner, \"Past, Present and Future\" in which characters from the previous story visit another dystopian city on the same planet. This city, although highly advanced technically, is more a simple authoritarian system but with a hierarchical system similar to that in the previous story. See also 1938 and 1939 Schachner, \"City of the Corporate Mind\" and \"City of the Cosmic Rays.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {1058, title = {"Past, Present and Future"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories}, volume = { 20.1 }, year = {1937}, month = {September 1937}, pages = {60-89}, abstract = {

A dystopia on a post catastrophe Earth of a hierarchical city with people living on levels appropriate to their status.\ First in a series of dystopias in which people from various past times experience various other dystopias.\ Sequels are 1937 Schachner, \"City of the Rocket Horde,\" and 1938 and 1939 Schachner, \"City of the Corporate Mind\" and \"City of the Cosmic Rays\".

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {11599, title = {"Sterile Planet"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories}, volume = {19.5}, year = {1937}, note = {

Rpt. in Nature\’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 113-143.

}, month = {July 1937}, pages = {52-73}, abstract = {

The sterile planet is Earth in 4260 because humans had ignored the prophecies of the early twentieth century and had \“denuded the forests, plowed up the soil, meddled recklessly with the delicate balance of nature\” (52). The story is primarily concerned with a battle between the so-called civilized and those who had been left behind when the last places with water had been captured and enclosed and a conflict between the authoritarian leader of the \“civilized\” and a scientist with a plan to restore Earth.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {895, title = {"The Robot Technocrat"}, howpublished = {Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL)}, volume = { 4.10}, year = {1933}, month = {March 1933}, pages = {743-55}, abstract = {

Set in 1954. Mostly on the dystopia of a collapsing world and the struggle for power. Suggests that technocracy is the solution.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955)} } @booklet {9366, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Exiles of the Moon{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) }, volume = {3.4 - 6 }, year = {1931}, month = {September - November 1931}, pages = { 440-75, 552-64; 670-709; 783-802}, abstract = {

Dystopia of two classes:\ aristocrats and enslaved workers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) and A[rthur] L[eo] Zagat (1865-1949)} }