"The Executioner"
| Title | "The Executioner" |
| Year for Search | 1956 |
| Authors | Budrys, Algis [Algirdas Jonas](1931-2008) |
| Secondary Title | Astounding Science Fiction (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 56.5 |
| Pagination | 8-38 |
| Date Published | January 1956 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1931-2008) was born in what was then East Prussia of Lithuanian parents and was brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was five. |
| Full Text | 1956 Budrys, Algis [Algirdas Jonas] (1931-2008). “The Executioner.” Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 56.5 (January 1956): 8-38. Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120. PSt Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent. The author was born in what was then East Prussia of Lithuanian parents and was brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was five. |
