"Eyes of Dust"
| Title | "Eyes of Dust" |
| Year for Search | 1959 |
| Authors | Ellison, Harlan [Jay](1934-2018) |
| Secondary Title | Rogue Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | 4.9 |
| Pagination | 30-32, 76 |
| Date Published | December 1959 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia that expects everyone to be physically perfect. A woman with a mole on her face and a blind man are shunned, marry, and give birth to a child who has the "eyes of dust", known only as Person, who they keep hidden. When Person is discovered, he is killed. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Stories (New York: Pyramid Books, 1967), 65-73, with an author’s note on 64; and in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 187-206. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | (1934-2018) |
| Full Text | 1959 Ellison, Harlan [Jay] (1934-2018). “Eyes of Dust.” Rogue Magazine 4.9 (December 1959): 30-32, 76. Rpt. in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Stories (New York: Pyramid Books, 1967), 65-73, with an author’s note on 64; and in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 187-206. DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt Flawed utopia that expects everyone to be physically perfect. A woman with a mole on her face and a blind man are shunned, marry, and give birth to a child who has the “eyes of dust”, known only as Person, who they keep hidden. When Person is discovered, he is killed. |
