@booklet {1396, title = {"No War Tomorrow"}, howpublished = {Science Fiction Quarterly}, volume = { 1.1 }, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Future Science Fiction\ (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.3 ([1954]): 35-60.

}, month = {May 1951}, pages = {8-30}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Venus is where Earth offloads its misfits, troublemakers, and those who want to live without rules. These people have formed a community called Wildoatia, which implies that the people are there to sow their wild oats before, if they survive, settling down on Earth. The story focuses upon a conflict between the dominant people on Venus and Earth and a means of avoiding war.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Wallace [George] West (1900-80)} } @booklet {1117, title = {"Sculptures of Life"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science-Fiction (New York)}, volume = {24.4 }, year = {1939}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers.\ Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41.

}, month = {December 1939}, pages = {71-85}, abstract = {

The background to the story is a flawed utopia. In the future a technique for transferring the personality of a person into a newly created body allows some extremely rich people to live forever. While accumulating power and wealth for themselves, they build a high tech future that appears to be better but is entirely dependent on the whims of these few people.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Wallace [George] West (1900-80)} }