"The Country of the Kind"
Title | "The Country of the Kind" |
Year for Search | 1956 |
Authors | Knight, Damon [Francis](1922-2002) |
Secondary Title | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) |
Volume / Edition | 10.2 |
Pagination | 3-14 |
Date Published | February 1956 |
ISSN Number | 00024-984X |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Eutopia of abundance, equality, and free love. But there is an individual who is a throwback to a time when people were violent, and the story is told by him. The problem for the eutopia is how to deal with such a person, and the solution is to give him a repulsive odor to identify him while leaving him free but with no one interacting with him at all. He is also conditioned to pass out when about to commit violence against a person. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 34-50 with an editors' note (33-34); in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 409-22; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 412-15 with an editor’s note on 412. |
Info Notes | Some sources give 1955 as the publication date, but that is the copyright date and 1956 is the year of first publication. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (1922-2002) |
Full Text | 1956 Knight, Damon [Francis] (1922-2002). “The Country of the Kind.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 10.2 (February 1956): 3-14. Rpt. in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 34-50 with an editors’ note (33-34); in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 409-22; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 412-15 with an editor’s note on 412. Some sources give 1955 as the publication date, but that is the copyright date and 1956 is the year of first publication. PSt Eutopia of abundance, equality, and free love. But there is an individual who is a throwback to a time when people were violent, and the story is told by him. The problem for the eutopia is how to deal with such a person, and the solution is to give him a repulsive odor to identify him while leaving him free but with no one interacting with him at all. He is also conditioned to pass out when about to commit violence against a person. |