"Bats"

Title"Bats"
Year for Search1987
AuthorsRooke, Leon(b. 1934)
Secondary AuthorsGotlieb, Phyllis [Fay Bloom](1926-2009), and Barbour, Douglas(b. 1940)
Secondary TitleTesseracts2
Pagination165-73
Date Published1987
PublisherPorcépic Press
Place PublishedVictoria, BC, Canada
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia in which all the old people are moved to a huge domed area where they wait to die. Gin keeps people content. Everyone lives in large domes in a controlled environment and appear to be hurried along to death. Some touches of fantasy.

Holding Institutions

Can, Merril, PSt

Author Note

Canadian author (b. 1934).

Full Text

1987 Rooke, Leon (b. 1934). “Bats.” Tesseracts2. Ed. Phyllis Gotlieb and Douglas Barbour (Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcépic Press, 1987), 165-73. Can, Merril, PSt

Dystopia in which all the old people are moved to a huge domed area where they wait to die. Gin keeps people content. Everyone lives in large domes in a controlled environment and appear to be hurried along to death. Some touches of fantasy. Canadian author.