"Alien Night"
| Title | "Alien Night" |
| Year for Search | 1957 |
| Authors | Scortia, Thomas N[icholas](1926-1986) |
| Secondary Title | Science Fiction Adventures |
| Volume / Edition | 1.5 |
| Pagination | 43-87 |
| Date Published | August 1957 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.” |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176. |
| Illustration | Illus. [Robert] Engle. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1926-1986) |
| Full Text | 1957 Scortia, Thomas N[icholas] (1926-1986). “Alien Night.” Illus. [Robert] Engle. Science Fiction Adventures 1.5 (August 1957): 43-87. Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176. PSt Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.” |
