TY - ABST T1 - "Mechanocracy" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia that insists upon standardization and eliminates all who do not conform. The story is about the attempt to destroy Democratia.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 312-38.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Birth of a New Republic" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Story of the battle for the independence of the moon. Earth is controlled by corporations, such as metals and transport, which are sovereign states. War among them.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Metal Man and Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume One (Royal Oak, MI: Hafner Press, 1999), 239-425.

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SFF, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise and Iron" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Problem in Communication" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.

JF - Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.

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