TY - ABST T1 - "Settling the World" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.

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