@booklet {10044, title = {"Ersatz"}, howpublished = {396-413 with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} (396-99) by Ellison and an {\textquotedblleft}Afterword{\textquotedblright} (402-03) by the Slesar}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, pages = {396-413 with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} (396-99) by Ellison and an {\textquotedblleft}Afterword{\textquotedblright} (402-03) by the Slesar}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Henry Slesar (1927-2002)}, editor = {Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018)} } @booklet {10194, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Good Morning! This Is the Future{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Rogue}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 118-23.\ 

}, month = {August 1962}, abstract = {

Brief vignettes of three men who had had themselves frozen being awakened into a dystopia worse than what they had been trying to escape.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Henry Slesar (1927-2002)} } @booklet {10276, title = {"The Old Man"}, howpublished = {The Diner{\textquoteright}s Club Magazine }, volume = {1}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52.

}, month = {1962}, abstract = {

\“The Old Man\” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Henry Slesar (1927-2002)} } @booklet {1730, title = {"Examination Day"}, howpublished = {Playboy}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy\ (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in\ A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in\ Weird Worlds, no. 4\ (1980): 6-.

}, month = {February 1958}, pages = {27, 30}, abstract = {

Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Henry Slesar (1927-2002)} }