"Granny Won't Knit"

Title"Granny Won't Knit"
Year for Search1955
AuthorsSturgeon, Theodore(1918-1985)
Secondary TitleGalaxy Science Fiction
Volume / Edition8.2
Pagination6-61
Date PublishedMay 1954
ISSN Number0016-4003
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia of extreme privacy. Children raised in crèches and sent to patriarchal, authoritarian families (one boy and one girl each). Some contrast to a eutopia of openness. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 161-214; and in Bright Segment. Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2002), 115-74.

Holding Institutions

Merril, O, PSt

Author Note

The author (1918-85) was born Edward Hamilton Waldo but legally changed his name to Theodore Sturgeon.

Full Text

1955 Sturgeon, Theodore (1918-85). “Granny Won’t Knit.” Galaxy Science Fiction 8.2 (May 1954): 6-61. Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 161-214; and in Bright Segment. Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2002), 115-74. Merril, O, PSt

Dystopia of extreme privacy. Children raised in crèches and sent to patriarchal, authoritarian families (one boy and one girl each). Some contrast to a eutopia of openness. The author was born Edward Hamilton Waldo but legally changed his name to Theodore Sturgeon.