"Cloak of Anarchy"

Title"Cloak of Anarchy"
Year for Search1972
AuthorsNiven, Larry [Lawrence van Cott](b. 1938)
Secondary TitleAnalog Science Fiction--Science Fact
Volume / Edition89.1
Pagination74-92
Date PublishedMarch 1972
ISSN Number1059-2113
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.

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Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19. 

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Author Note

(b. 1938)

Full Text

1972 Niven, Larry [Lawrence van Cott] (b. 1938). “Cloak of Anarchy.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 89.1 (March 1972): 74-92. Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19. PSt

Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.