TY - ABST T1 - Six-Gun Planet Y1 - 1970 A1 - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Planet called Missouri designed to be like the popular images of the Old West in the U.S. with a gunfight at sundown.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sellers of the Dream" Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of planned obsolescence in which people can get new bodies and personalities each year as well as fashions. Conflict between the two main corporations providing the changes leads to war.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 21.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 86-123; and in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 80-116. 

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