TY - ABST T1 - “Before the Fact” Y1 - 1955 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future eutopia of complete security, health, no government “except in a coordinating capacity” (61) in which the suicide rate is rising, and some people find boring. The story turns, though, on the idea that children’s games and rhymes anticipate the future and, in this case, suggest a dramatic change. 

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 9 SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 411-17. 

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