@booklet {8889, title = {"Wellbeing: A Fiction"}, howpublished = {Why Scots Should Rule Scotland 1997: A Carnaptious History of Britain from Roman Times until Now}, year = {1997}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Well Being.\” In his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 759-65.

}, month = {1997}, pages = {112-18}, publisher = {Canongate}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {4526, title = {A History Maker}, year = {1994}, note = {

[Rev. ed.]. London: Penguin Books, 1995. Part originally published as \"The History Maker.\" Chapman, no. 50-51 (10.1\& 2) (Summer 1987): 128-31.

}, month = {1994}, publisher = {Canongate}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Complex novel of a future world in which women have used a free source of power to create a decentralized eutopia and men fight wars. Temporary destruction of some of the power sources may lead to men being more involved.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {9524, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Near the Driver{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ten Tales Tall and True }, year = {1993}, note = {

U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 129-53.\ Rpt.\ in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 653-70.\ 

}, month = {1993}, pages = {129-53}, publisher = {Canongate}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot}, abstract = {

The dystopia of a future highly automated Britain with the focus on British Rail.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {9525, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Trendelenburg Position{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ten Tales Tall and True }, year = {1993}, note = {

U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 102-10. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 633-39.\ 

}, month = {1993}, pages = {102-10}, publisher = {Canongate}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot}, abstract = {

Odd story in which a dentist talks to a patient and, in doing so, describes aspects of a future dystopian Britain.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {8861, title = {"A New World"}, howpublished = {Fiction Magazine}, volume = {6.2}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101;\ and\ in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24.\ 

}, month = {1987}, pages = {12-13}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {3475, title = {"The End Of Axletree"}, howpublished = {Unlikely Stories, Mostly}, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. (London: Penguin, 1984), 233-71; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 217-51.

}, month = {1983}, pages = {233-71}, publisher = {Canongate}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Sequel to 1979 Gray in which the Axletree reaches heaven. The process of building it had destroyed civilization. An attempt to enter heaven destroys the Axletree.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {3287, title = {Lanark; A Life in Four Books}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rev. ed. Edinburgh, Scot: Canongate Publishing, 1985. Rpt. London: Picador, 1994. Parts published as \"From the World of Lanark.\" Scottish International, no. 12 (November-December 1970): 30-40 (Chapters 6 and 7); \"Extract from Lanark.\" Words, [no. 1] (Autumn 1976): 3-6; \"Alexander Comes (an extract from Lanark).\" Words 6 [1978]: 5-9 (Chapter 41); \"Prologue to Lanark.\" GUM: Glasgow University Magazine (1974) [Not held by the Glasgow University Library or the Glasgow University Archives]; and \"From Lanark.\" Words (1979) (Chapter 35). See \"Lanark Storyboard\" [A Projected film of Lanark]. Scottish Book Collector 2.1 - 2.6, 2.8 - 2.12, 3.2 - 3.6, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12, 4.3 - 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 - 5.7. 5.9 - 5.10 (August/September 1989 - August/September 1990, December 1990/January 1991 - August/September 1991, December 1991/January 1992 - August/September 1992, February/March 1993, June/July 1993, February/March 1994 - Winter 1996/97, Summer 1997, Autumn 1997): 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 24-25; 28; 31; 19; 32; 30-31; 26-27; 14; 13; 29; 14; 17; 20; 13; 25; 10; 26; 21; 21; 21; 21; 21; 19; 23; 23; 19; 8; 23; 30; 30; 27. The last gives the authors as Gray and Ms. Fairlie Fox; all the others are by Gray.

}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Canongate Publishing/Harper \& Row}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot./New York}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia that follows the character Lanark through the surrealistic city of Unthank, which has severe economic and political problems and is threatened environmentally. Includes a side trip to a version of Hell.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {3144, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Words (Fife, Scot.)}, volume = {no. 8}, year = {1979}, note = {

Slightly rev. as \“Five Letters From an Eastern Empire: Describing Etiquette, Government, Irrigation, Education, Clogs, Kites, Rumour, Poetry, Justice, Massage, Town-Planning, Sex and Ventriloquism in an Obsolete Nation.\” Illus. by the author\ in his Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1983), 85-113; rpt. (London: Penguin, 1984), 85-113; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 91-133.

}, month = {[1979]}, pages = {2-15}, abstract = {

Dystopian oriental tale with a puppet as an emperor and an authoritarian government.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} } @booklet {3145, title = {"The Origin of the Axletree"}, howpublished = {Scottish Short Stories 1979}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. as \"The Start of the Axletree.\" Illus. by the author\ in his\ Unlikely Stories, Mostly\ (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1983), 67-83; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 76-89.

}, month = {1979}, pages = {21-35}, publisher = {Collins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A mildly dystopian story in which a prince decides to build a structure, the Axletree, that will reach heaven. See 1983 Gray for the dystopian sequel.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} }