@booklet {3016, title = {"Alien Sensation."}, howpublished = {Cassandra Rising}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, pages = {66-70}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935)}, editor = {Alice Laurence} } @booklet {3007, title = {"Escape to the Suburbs"}, howpublished = {Cassandra Rising}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, pages = {57-65}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98)}, editor = {Alice Laurence} } @booklet {3003, title = {"SQ"}, howpublished = {Cassandra Rising}, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in her\ The Compass Rose\ (New York: Harper \& Row, 1982), 69-80.

}, month = {1978}, pages = {1-10}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The SQ test is presumably able to distinguish the sane and the insane and becomes required world-wide. Gradually the majority of people are judged insane and most of the sane choose to live in the asylums both to care for their relatives and because life was better in them than outside where the world economy is collapsing.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018)}, editor = {Alice Laurence} }