@booklet {2122, title = {Ladies{\textquoteright} Day}, year = {1968}, month = {1968}, pages = {110-72}, publisher = {Belmont Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94)} } @booklet {1795, title = {"The World-Timer"}, howpublished = {Fantastic Science Fiction Stories }, volume = {9.8 }, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33.\ 

}, month = {August 1960}, pages = {6-32}, abstract = {

A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94)} } @booklet {1703, title = {"This Crowded Earth"}, howpublished = {Amazing Science Fiction Stories }, volume = {38.10}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.

}, month = {October 1958}, pages = {55-140}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1060-541X }, author = {Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94)} } @booklet {10120, title = {"It Happened Tomorrow{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Astounding Stories}, volume = {4.3}, year = {1943}, note = {

Rpt. in The Devil With You! The Lost Bloch, Volume 1. Ed. David J. Schlow (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999), 161-206, with a \“Foreword\” by Bloch on 161-62.\ 

}, month = {February 1943}, pages = {46-}, abstract = {

The dystopia created when machines revolt and the effect on the lives of ordinary people.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94)} }