@booklet {5188, title = {The Legend of New Earth}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Australian Broadcasting Commission}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Eutopia with problems. Children\&$\#$39;s book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)} } @booklet {3045, title = {"The Cage of Flesh"}, howpublished = {Envisaged Worlds: From the Editor of Void. Australia{\textquoteright}s First Science Fiction Anthology}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, pages = {35-47}, publisher = {Void Publications}, address = {St. Kilda, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A future overpopulated world, where the overwhelming majority of people live impoverished lives, but where the rich search for exotic pleasures and live lives of extreme decadence.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)}, editor = {Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3021, title = {"In a Petri Dish, Upstairs"}, howpublished = {Rooms of Paradise}, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best Science Fiction of the Year $\#$9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his\ A Pursuit of Miracles\ (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in\ The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38.

}, month = {1978}, pages = {152-82}, publisher = {Quartet}, address = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian \"communal fathers\", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97)}, editor = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)} } @booklet {2897, title = {Future Sanctuary}, year = {1976}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Laser Books}, address = {Don Mills, ON, Canada}, abstract = {

Eutopia and dystopia. Fleeing from an authoritarian dystopia, the protagonist visits a number of simple eutopias that provide sanctuary.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)} } @booklet {2253, title = {"Dancing Gerontius"}, howpublished = {Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) }, volume = {1.2 }, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in\ The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191.\ 

}, month = {December 1969}, pages = {48-54}, abstract = {

The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023)} }