"Cloak of Anarchy"
| Title | "Cloak of Anarchy" |
| Year for Search | 1972 |
| Authors | Niven, Larry [Lawrence van Cott](b. 1938) |
| Secondary Title | Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact |
| Volume / Edition | 89.1 |
| Pagination | 74-92 |
| Date Published | March 1972 |
| ISSN Number | 1059-2113 |
| Keywords | Male 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| 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. |
