@booklet {1490, title = {"Potemkin Village"}, howpublished = {Startling Stories }, volume = {29.1}, year = {1953}, month = {February 1953}, pages = {84-105}, abstract = {

Totalitarian dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)} } @booklet {1296, title = {The Carnelian Cube; A Humorous Fantasy}, year = {1948}, month = {1948}, publisher = {Gnome Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire in which the protagonist visits a series of worlds. The first is a purely rational world, followed by a world of individualism, and then a world of science with a medieval touch. All are unsatisfactory.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)} } @booklet {851, title = {"A Voice Across The Years"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ)}, volume = { 5.1 }, year = {1932}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.

}, month = {Winter 1932}, pages = {2-73}, abstract = {

Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Male author}, author = {[Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70) and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)} } @booklet {757, title = {"The City of the Living Dead"}, howpublished = {Science Wonder Stories }, volume = {1.12}, year = {1930}, note = {

Rpt. in Startling Stories 4.1 (July 1940): 94-104; and Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 108-30.

}, month = {May 1930}, pages = {1100-07, 1136-37}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Everyone spends their time dreaming in machines and the human race degenerates.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972) and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)} }