“Forgetfulness”

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Title“Forgetfulness”
Year for Search1937
Authors[Campbell], [John Wood] [Jr.](1910-71)
Tertiary AuthorsStuart, Don A. [pseud.]
Secondary TitleAstounding Stories
Volume / Edition19.4
Pagination52-71
Date PublishedJune 1937
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

An extremely high-tech people chose to reject the technology and the violence that accompanied it and create a pastoral eutopia. Most of the story focuses on the people from another planet who plan to eliminate the eutopia to get access to the technology.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Adventures in Time and Space: An Anthology of Modern Science-Fiction Stories. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Random House, 1946), 20-45, which was rpt. as Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Modern Library, 1957), 20-45; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 209-32.
Pseudonym

Don A. Stuart [pseud.]
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (1910-71) was the well-known editor of early science fiction magazines.
Full Text

1937 [Campbell, John Wood] (1910-71). “Forgetfulness.” By Don A. Stuart [pseud.]. Astounding Stories 19.4 (June 1937): 52-71. Rpt. in Adventures in Time and Space: An Anthology of Modern Science-Fiction Stories. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Random House, 1946), 20-45, which was rpt. as Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Modern Library, 1957), 20-45; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 209-32. PSt

An extremely high-tech people chose to reject the technology and the violence that accompanied it and create a pastoral eutopia. Most of the story focuses on the people from another planet who plan to eliminate the eutopia to get access to the technology. The author was the well-known editor of early science fiction magazines.