"Examination Day"
| Title | "Examination Day" |
| Year for Search | 1958 |
| Authors | Slesar, Henry(1927-2002) |
| Secondary Title | Playboy |
| Pagination | 27, 30 |
| Date Published | February 1958 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-. |
| Author Note | The author (1927-2002) was born Henry Schlosser and changed his name.(1927-2002) |
| Full Text | 1958 Slesar, Henry (1927-2002). “Examination Day.” Playboy (February 1958): 27, 30. Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-. Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed. The author was born Henry Schlosser and changed his name. |
