TY - ABST T1 - A Reasonable World Y1 - 1991 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -
Development of a peaceful world against the background of authoritarian governments. The third volume of a trilogy with the first two non-utopian; see CV. New York: Tor, 1985. Originally published in a shorter version in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984); and The Observers New York: Tor, 1988.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strangers on Paradise" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia built upon the suffering of the previous inhabitants of a planet.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 70.4 (419) N1 -Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 1-19.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Each Prisoner Pent" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire on the costs of incarceration in which criminals are given minor punishments together with degrees of support depending on their crime because it is cheaper to provide a lavish life outside jail than to imprison people. Jails are turned over to artists, authors, and poets.
JF - Stardate VL - no. 8 (1.8) N1 -Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 76-80.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pursuit of Excellence" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Rena Yount ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of a future in which, if the parents can afford it, children can be engineered for appearance, higher intelligence, and specific skills. The story focuses on a mother wants her ideal daughter and is willing to give up her normal husband and son to be able to pay for her engineering.
JF - The Clarion Awards PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 302-18 with an editor's note on 301.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Forever" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Scientists in the nineteenth century invent an elixir for a very long life, which is followed by a cure for all diseases. This leads to a eutopia of peace and prosperity, and, later, a fall in the birth rate and the end of the human race.
JF - Omni VL - 4.2 N1 -Rpt. In The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, nd), 345-53.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Abominable" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which men pursue the elusive creature, woman, about whom they have many false ideas.
JF - Orbit 21 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 21 N1 -Rpt. in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 105-11; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 293-96.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seven American Nights" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a destroyed future America.
JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 20 N1 -Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 153-210; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 880-91 with an editor’s note on 880.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I See You" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Total surveillance presented positively.
Rpt. in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 91-101.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pale Hands" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.
JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 15 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Young Love" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Grania [Eve] Davis (1943-2017) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia. Sexless love in a disintegrating society where most people live in communities with all their activities regulated. From age 12 boys and girls live in separate communities. Chemical food. Large numbers are homeless. Generally unintelligent and uneducated. The Army does work like street cleaning that robots are not able to do.
JF - Orbit 13 PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 206-22.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Canary" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Bureaucratic welfare dystopia of extreme poverty and the rationing of health care.
JF - Orbit PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 12 N1 -Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 113-33.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Windows in Dante's Hell" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.
JF - Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Al" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story tells of a man who survives a plane crash in an isolated valley that seems to be a eutopia of artists and his experiences there. Told both from the point of view of the man and some of the inhabitants.
JF - Orbit 10: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 10 N1 -Rpt. in Best Stories from Orbit 1-10. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Publishing Co., 1975), 350-59; and in her Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 143-54.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gantlet" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
JF - Orbit: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 10 N1 -Rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 254-65.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Machines of Loving Grace" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation and machine dystopia.
JF - Orbit PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They Cope" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Dave [David John] Skal (1952-2024) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of sensory overload.
JF - Orbit PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chosen" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.
JF - Orbit 6 PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -IaU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the Whip Came Back" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of the reintroduction of slavery.
JF - Orbit PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 6 N1 -Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 385-99.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interurban Queen” Y1 - 1970 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.
JF - Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 8 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pressure of Time" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.
Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right Off the Map" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Pip Winn ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author AB -Brief overpopulation dystopia.
JF - Orbit 8: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A for Anything Y1 - 1961 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A machine that can duplicate anything produces a dystopia of a rigid, stratified, slave society.
PB - New English Library, Four Square Books CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1970. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1980. Shorter version as The People Maker. Rockville, NY: Zenith Books, 1959.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masters of Evolution Y1 - 1959 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Urban-rural conflict in 2064 with the two largely cut off from each other. The cities (five in the U.S.) are advanced in technology, have robot servants, synthetic food, and the like. The rural areas have rejected technology, grow their own food, raise animals, and are advanced in biology. The novel is concerned with the need for the two to interact, which leads to war and the collapse of New York City.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -Shorter version originally published as "Natural State." Galaxy Science Fiction 7.5 (January 1954): 6-69. Story rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 215-78.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dio" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to "remember" and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying.
JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.5 N1 -Rpt. in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-81.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Country of the Kind" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia of abundance, equality, and free love. But there is an individual who is a throwback to a time when people were violent, and the story is told by him. The problem for the eutopia is how to deal with such a person, and the solution is to give him a repulsive odor to identify him while leaving him free but with no one interacting with him at all. He is also conditioned to pass out when about to commit violence against a person.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.2 N1 -Rpt. in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 34-50 with an editors' note (33-34); in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 409-22; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 412-15 with an editor’s note on 412.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hell's Pavement Y1 - 1955 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Attempts to control violence through the implantation of an "analogue", a device that controls supposedly anti-social behavior. Legislation is passed to require such implants, except in the ruling class
PB - Lion Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Avon, 1980. Also entitled Analogue Men. New York: Berkley, 1962. Chapter 1 was published as "The Analogues." Astounding Science Fiction 48.5 (January 1952): 36-45. Parts are based on the story "Turncoat." Thrilling Wonder Stories 42.1 (April 1953): 10-48.
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