TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Planet. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel begins with Earth near death from pollution and war. Mars is to be the next center of human civilization, but it experiences the same problems as Earth. Far in the future the remnant of humanity exists in a society of 10,000 underground on the tenth planet where it is under a static, religious, but benevolent dictatorship that provides a good life for its inhabitants but severely restricts change. A man from the time of the dying Earth is cloned and becomes the focus of conflict and encourages conflict. At the end, he and some others leave to see if Earth can be revived.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow's Gift" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a four-class society based on I.Q. and H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). The classes are administrators, technicians, prefrontals (having failed in one of the top classes), and illiterates.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow's Gift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 7-15. U.K. ed. (London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, [1958]), 5-13.

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