"Cainⁿ"

Title"Cainⁿ"
Year for Search1972
AuthorsHargreaves, H[enry] A.(b. 1928)
Secondary AuthorsCarnell, [Edward] John(1912-72)
Tertiary AuthorsCarnell, John, and Hargreaves, H. A.
Secondary TitleNew Writings in S-F
Volume / Edition20
Pagination83-134
Date Published1972
PublisherDobson
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

Eutopia of the future rehabilitation of criminals told from the point of view of one of the criminals being rehabilitated. Those considered “genetically criminal” are “permanently isolated;” those considered “low productive” have their memories permanently erased and are “restrained for base labor” (87). For those deemed capable of being rehabilitated, the regime consists of education, exercise, and humiliation at the hands of someone who, it turns out, had been through the process.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 59-99.

Holding Institutions

Can, InU, Merril, PSt

Author Note

Canadian author (b. 1928).

Full Text

1972 Hargreaves, H[enry] A. (b. 1928). “Cainn.” New Writings in S-F 20. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell  (London: Dobson, 1972), 83-134. Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 59-99. Can, InU, Merril, PSt

Eutopia of the future rehabilitation of criminals told from the point of view of one of the criminals being rehabilitated. Those considered “genetically criminal” are “permanently isolated;” those considered “low productive” have their memories permanently erased and are “restrained for base labor” (87). For those deemed capable of being rehabilitated, the regime consists of education, exercise, and humiliation at the hands of someone who, it turns out, had been through the process. Canadian author.