“Montpellier”

Title“Montpellier”
Year for Search2016
AuthorsWhates, Ian [George](b. 1959)
Secondary TitleGalaxy's Edge
Volume / Editionno. 19
Pagination43-48
Date PublishedMarch/April 2016
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79. 

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Author Note

(b. 1959)

Full Text

2016 Whates, Ian [George] (b. 1959). “Montpellier.” Galaxy’s Edge, no. 19 (March/April 2016): 43-48. Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79. PSt

The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.