@booklet {1202, title = {"The Gladiators"}, howpublished = {Startling Stories (Chicago, IL)}, volume = {9.1}, year = {1943}, month = {January 1943}, pages = {106-15}, abstract = {

Dystopia. After wars had devastated the earth, the remaining population inhabited two domes of 25,000 people each with a third dome of forest. Twice a year gladiators provided entertainment by fighting to the death in the third dome as representatives of one of the inhabited domes. Most people led dull, boring lives, and the gladiators and other entertainers provided the only breaks in the monotony. The gladiators and entertainers revolt and are expelled from the domes, only to discover that the earth had recovered.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Walt Dennis and Ernest Tucker} }