"Coventry"
| Title | "Coventry" |
| Year for Search | 1940 |
| Authors | Heinlein, Robert A[nson](1907-88) |
| Secondary Title | Astounding Science Fiction (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 25.5 |
| Pagination | 56-93 |
| Date Published | July 1940 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopias and a eutopia set after the revolution against the religious dystopia of Heinlein's 1940 "If This Goes On", better known as Revolt in 2100. Four societies are depicted, three of them in the area known as Coventry and the fourth the eutopian society created after the revolution that sends people to Coventry as a punishment for harming another citizen. The three dystopias are New America, a corrupt democracy; the Free State, a dictatorship; and the Angels, the remnants of the overthrown religious dystopia. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: "Future History" Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967), 471-508; and in The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume II. Vol. 23 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 181-230. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (1907-88) |
| Full Text | 1940 Heinlein, Robert A[nson] (1907-88). “Coventry.” Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 25.5 (July 1940): 56-93. Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: “Future History” Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 471-508; and in The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume II. Vol. 23 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 181-230. Merril Dystopias and a eutopia set after the revolution against the religious dystopia of Heinlein’s 1940 “If This Goes On”, better known as Revolt in 2100. Four societies are depicted, three of them in the area known as Coventry and the fourth the eutopian society created after the revolution that sends people to Coventry as a punishment for harming another citizen. The three dystopias are New America, a corrupt democracy; the Free State, a dictatorship; and the Angels, the remnants of the overthrown religious dystopia. |
