"Dancing Gerontius"
Title | "Dancing Gerontius" |
Year for Search | 1969 |
Authors | Harding, Lee [John](1937-2023) |
Secondary Title | Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) |
Volume / Edition | 1.2 |
Pagination | 48-54 |
Date Published | December 1969 |
Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
Annotation | The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191. |
Holding Institutions | A, M, PU |
Author Note | Australian author (1937-2023) |
Full Text | 1969 Harding, Lee [John] (1937-2023). “Dancing Gerontius.” Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.2 (December 1969): 48-54. Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191. A, M, PU The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one. Australian author. |