"Like the Gentle Rain"
| Title | "Like the Gentle Rain" |
| Year for Search | 1997 |
| Authors | Shiner, Lewis [Gordon](b. 1950) |
| Secondary Title | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 93.4 |
| Pagination | 167-81 |
| Date Published | October/November 1997 |
| ISSN Number | Magazine of of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.” |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (b. 1950) |
| Full Text | 1997 Shiner, Lewis [Gordon] (b. 1950). “Like the Gentle Rain.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 93.4 (October/November 1997): 167-81. Merril Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.” |
