“Terminal”
| Title | “Terminal” |
| Year for Search | 1965 |
| Authors | Goulart, Ron[ald Joseph](1933-2022) |
| Tertiary Authors | Goulart, Ron |
| Secondary Title | Fantastic Stories of Imagination |
| Volume / Edition | 14.4 |
| Pagination | 85-92 |
| Date Published | May 1965 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | 1933-2022 |
| Full Text | 1965 Goulart, Ron[ald Joseph] (1933-2022). “Terminal.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 14.4 (May 1965): 85-92. Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192. PSt The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines. |
