TY - ABST T1 - The Legend of New Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with problems. Children's book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.

PB - Australian Broadcasting Commission CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Flesh" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future overpopulated world, where the overwhelming majority of people live impoverished lives, but where the rich search for exotic pleasures and live lives of extreme decadence.

JF - Envisaged Worlds: From the Editor of Void. Australia's First Science Fiction Anthology PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In a Petri Dish, Upstairs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) ED - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian "communal fathers", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth.

JF - Rooms of Paradise PB - Quartet CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Sanctuary Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Fleeing from an authoritarian dystopia, the protagonist visits a number of simple eutopias that provide sanctuary.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dancing Gerontius" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.

JF - Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191. 

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