“Before the Fact”
| Title | “Before the Fact” |
| Year for Search | 1955 |
| Authors | Henderson, Zenna [Charlson](1917-83) |
| Secondary Title | Universe Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | no. 9 |
| Pagination | 60-67 |
| Date Published | January 1955 |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-61037-338-8 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 411-17. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1917-83) |
| Full Text | 1955 Henderson, Zenna [Charlson] (1917-83). “Before the Fact.” Universe Science Fiction, no. 9 (January 1955): 60-67. Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 411-17. PSt 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. Female author. |
