False Dawn

TitleFalse Dawn
Year for Search1978
AuthorsYarbro, Chelsea Quinn(b. 1942)
Date Published1978
PublisherDoubleday
Place PublishedGarden City, NY
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in a future U.S. where disease, pollution, and war has decimated both the land and the people.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2002. U.K. ed. as False Dawn: Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. The first chapter was published as "False Dawn." Strange Bedfellows; Sex and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (New York: Random House, 1972), 117-34; and rpt. in Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 214-34; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 234-48.

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Author Note

Female author (b. 1942).

Full Text

1978 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (b. 1942). False Dawn. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2002. U.K. ed. as False Dawn: Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. The first chapter was published as “False Dawn.” Strange Bedfellows; Sex and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (New York: Random House, 1972), 117-34; and rpt. in Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 214-34; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 234-48. PSt

Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in a future U.S. where disease, pollution, and war has decimated both the land and the people. Female author.