"Conquest by Default"
| Title | "Conquest by Default" |
| Year for Search | 1968 |
| Authors | Vinge, Vernor [Steffen](1944-2024) |
| Secondary Title | Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact |
| Volume / Edition | 81.3 |
| Pagination | 54-84 |
| Date Published | May 1968 |
| ISSN Number | 1059-2113 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril, MoU-St |
| Author Note | (1944-2024) |
| Full Text | 1968 Vinge, Vernor [Steffen] (1944-2024). “Conquest by Default.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 81.3 (May 1968): 54-84. Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author. Merril, MoU-St Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power. |
