@booklet {3447, title = {Not by Bread Alone}, year = {1983}, month = {1983}, publisher = {Marion Boyars}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Scientists develop a way of manipulating plants that makes it possible to produce a food called Freefood. A large corporation supports the development and distribution of Freefood while making immense profits. Various problems arise with the plants, and with the fact that feeding the entire world adequately is not enough to make everyone happy. Much of the novel is set in Australia, where the Aboriginals are establishing a new state in in northern Australia carved out of Queensland called Murngin, where they practice the old ways without the Freefood or alcohol. It is presented as a eutopia.

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999)} } @booklet {2775, title = {Solution Three}, year = {1975}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Warner Books, 1975. Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995, with an \“Afterword Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult\” by Susan M. Squier (161-83).

}, month = {1975}, publisher = {Dennis Dobson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel is set after a nuclear war in a society that is experiencing overpopulation and food shortages. The first two solutions fail, but the third appears to be working. It requires prohibits heterosexuality, with some exceptions, who are looked down upon and discriminated against, and requires homosexuality. Reproduction is through cloning, with the original parents a black man and a white woman, thus eliminating racism. Children are raised collectively until weaned and then they are \“strengthened,\” by having their individuality removed and replaced with conditional responses through behavioral engineering. But Solution Three is also failing.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999)} } @booklet {11172, title = {"The Factory"}, howpublished = {Nova Three}, year = {1972}, month = {1972}, pages = {87-92}, publisher = {Delacorte Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a present-day, completely realistic dystopia in which a factory\’s emissions kills all the animals near it.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999)}, editor = {Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012)} } @booklet {966, title = {We Have Been Warned. A Novel}, year = {1935}, note = {

Two chapters were originally published as \“Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).\” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as \“Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.\” The New Oxford Outlook (Oxford, England) 1.3 (February 1934): 274-87.\ 

}, month = {1935}, pages = {554 pp.}, publisher = {Constable \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999)} } @booklet {739, title = {"The Goat: Cardiff A.D. 1935"}, howpublished = {Barbarian Stories}, year = {1929}, month = {1929}, pages = {275-290}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Near future tale in which each year one of the rich is chosen by lot to be executed. Background of extreme poverty.

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999)} }