[“A Fable for Tomorrow”]
| Title | [“A Fable for Tomorrow”] |
| Year for Search | 1962 |
| Authors | Carson, Rachel(1907-64) |
| Secondary Title | The New Yorker |
| Volume / Edition | 38.17 |
| Pagination | 35 |
| Date Published | June 16, 1962 |
| ISSN Number | 0028-792X |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. with the chapter title in her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15). |
| Illustration | Illus. Lois and Louis Darling |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1907-64), Female author. |
| Full Text | 1962 Carson, Rachel (1907-64). [“A Fable for Tomorrow”]. In her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15). Originally published without the chapter title in the serialization of the book in The New Yorker 38.17 (June 16, 1972): 35. A brief dystopia on the effects of pesticides, particularly DDT, on an idyllic village. In Richard S. Simak and Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88). “The Unsilent Spring.” Stellar #2: Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 168-208, a local doctor discovers that the widespread use of DDT has changed human DNA and is now necessary for good health. |
