@booklet {1702, title = {A Case of Conscience}, year = {1958}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Faber \& Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker \& Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a \“Biographical Note\” (809-10), a \“Note on the Text\” (815-16), and \“Notes\” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021.\ Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.

}, month = {1958}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel\’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75)} }