TY - ABST T1 - "Faulty Register" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "IMT" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Warrior" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rope of Glass" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weariest River" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.

JF - Future City PB - Trident Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Petals Fall" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Night" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.”

JF - Science Fiction Adventures VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176.

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Illus. [Robert] Engle.

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PSt

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