"Demokratus."
| Title | "Demokratus." |
| Year for Search | 1997 |
| Authors | Koman, Victor [Paul](b. 1954) |
| Secondary Authors | Linaweaver, Brad[ford Swain](1952-2019), and Kramer, Edward |
| Secondary Title | Free Space |
| Pagination | 197-220 |
| Date Published | 1997 |
| Publisher | Tor |
| Place Published | New York |
| ISBN Number | 0-312-85957-0 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1954) |
| Full Text | 1997 Koman, Victor (b. 1944). “Demokratus.” Free Space. Ed. Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 197-220. PSt The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with. |
