@booklet {272, title = {"A Curious Fragment"}, howpublished = {Town Topics }, year = {1908}, note = {

Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London\’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86\ with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 79; \ in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.

}, month = {December 10, 1908}, pages = {45-47}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War.\ See also 1907 London, 1908 London, \"Goliah\", and 1909 London.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916)} }