TY - ABST T1 - Shadrach in the Furnace Y1 - 1976 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with a leader compulsively concerned with immortality. Most of the novel is concerned with the leader's doctor, Mordecai Shadrach, and the decisions he has to make.

PB - Bobbs-Merrill CY - Indianapolis, IN N1 -

Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 96.8 - 10 (August - October 1976): 97-162; 88-162; 88-127; 10-74, 76-91, 129-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Second Trip" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background where criminals have their personality wiped out and a new personality implanted.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 45.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which each person is assigned to one day and only one day and "sleeps" all the other days. See 1985 Farmer and 2016 Farmer and Adams for works that develop the basic idea.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 113-29; in The Grand Adventure: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 163-90; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 130-45; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 487-503.

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Merril, MoU-St, PU

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