"Adrift at the Policy Level"

Title"Adrift at the Policy Level"
Year for Search1959
AuthorsDavis, [Horace] Chan[dler](b. 1926)
Secondary AuthorsMcNelly, Willis E., and Stover, Leon [Eugene](1929-2006)
Tertiary AuthorsDavis, Chan
Secondary TitleAbove the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology
Pagination71-86
Date Published1959/1972
PublisherGoodyear Publishing
Place PublishedPacific Palisades, CA
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Corporate dystopia.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author's preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85.

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The author (b. 1926)  retired as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. As a Communist, he spent six months in jail in the U.S. after refusing to cooperate with the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) and was fired by the University of Michigan.

Full Text

1959 Davis, [Horace] Chan[dler] (b. 1926). “Adrift at the Policy Level.” Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing, 1972), 71-86. Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author’s preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85. Merril

Corporate dystopia. The author retired as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. As a Communist, he spent six months in jail in the U.S. after refusing to cooperate with the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) and was fired by the University of Michigan.