"Dio"
| Title | "Dio" |
| Year for Search | 1957 |
| Authors | Knight, Damon [Francis](1922-2002) |
| Secondary Title | Infinity Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 2.5 |
| Pagination | 34-70 |
| Date Published | September 1957 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to “remember” and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Alpha 4. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1973), 23-61, with a note on the author on 23; and in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-581. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril, MoU-St |
| Author Note | (1922-2002) |
| Full Text | 1957 Knight, Damon [Francis] (1922-2002). “Dio.” Infinity Science Fiction 2.5 (September 1957): 34-70. Rpt. in Alpha 4. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1973), 23-61, with a note on the author on 23; and in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-581. Merril, MoU-St Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to “remember” and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying. |
