"5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes"
Title | "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" |
Year for Search | 1990 |
Authors | Maloney, Geoffrey [Peter](b. 1956) |
Secondary Title | Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) |
Volume / Edition | no. 1 |
Pagination | 38-47 |
Date Published | 1990 |
Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
Annotation | A successful revolution against corporate control produces another authoritarian dystopia in the name of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General". |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 67-77; and in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 74.86. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Australian author (b. 1956). |
Full Text | 1990 Maloney, Geoffrey [Peter] (b. 1956). “5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes.” Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 (1990): 38-47. Rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 67-77; and in his Tales from the Crypto-System ( A successful revolution against corporate control produces another authoritarian dystopia in the name of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney “The Taxi Driver” and 1998 Maloney “Keep the Meter Running” are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney “The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney “Requiem for the General”. Australian author. |