"This Crowded Earth"
| Title | "This Crowded Earth" |
| Year for Search | 1958 |
| Authors | Bloch, Robert [Albert](1917-94) |
| Secondary Title | Amazing Science Fiction Stories |
| Volume / Edition | 38.10 |
| Pagination | 55-140 |
| Date Published | October 1958 |
| ISSN Number | 1060-541X |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1917-94) |
| Full Text | 1958 Bloch, Robert [Albert] (1917-94). “This Crowded Earth.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 38.10 (October 1958): 55-140. Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch. PSt Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change. |
