TY - ABST T1 - "Temptress of Planet Delight" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained.

JF - Planet Stories VL - 5.12 N1 -

Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Divine Right" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

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