"The City of God"

Title"The City of God"
Year for Search1995
AuthorsDozois, Gardner R[aymond](1947-2018), and Swanwick, Michael [Jürgen](b. 1950)
Secondary TitleOmni Online
Date Published1995
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

An exploration of the nature of utopianism and the way that the desire for power can corrupt it. Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of grinding poverty and violence and a now deserted eutopia.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Asimov's Science Fiction 20.10& 11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 208-74; and in Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick with Jack [Mayo] Dann, Avram Davidson, and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois. Moon Dogs. Ed. Ann A. Broomhead & Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000), 155-231.

URLNo longer available on the web
Holding Institutions

CU-Riv, PSt

Author Note

Dozois (b. 1947) and Swanwick (b. 1950)

Full Text

1995 Dozois, Gardner [Raymond] (1947-2018) and Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950). “The City of God.” Omni Online (1995) No longer available on the web. Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 208-74; and in Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick with Jack [Mayo] Dann, Avram Davidson, and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois. Moon Dogs. Ed. Ann A. Broomhead & Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000), 155-231. CU-Riv, PSt

An exploration of the nature of utopianism and the way that the desire for power can corrupt it. Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of grinding poverty and violence and a now deserted eutopia.