TY - ABST T1 - “The Hidden Universe” Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia presented as a utopia. The story is set during the depression when everyone is desperate for work. Some are sent to a colony in space named “Utopia.” The colonists, who did not know where they were being sent are told that each adult will be able to choose a plot of city or country land, build a house “on easy terms,” the land cannot be taken away, wages cannot be garnished, no taxes, no relief because everyone has a job, free medical care, paid fully during illness or disability, free education to limit of abilities, church in each town. There are twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night; it rains only at night; and there are no seasons. Their contract was for five years, but they learn it is forever.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 13.11 - 12 U3 -

Ralph Milne Farley [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolution of 1950" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35) A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure story set in a dictatorship in the US.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 12.5 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. as "The Revolution of 1960." In Weinbaum, The Red Peri (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952), 218-70; and under the latter title and with Farley [pseud.] as co-author in A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Stories. The Collected Short Stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 500-52.

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Rpt. as "The Revolution of 1960." 

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Ralph Milne Farley [pseud. ]

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MoU-St, SFF

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