"The Great Wall of Mexico"

Title"The Great Wall of Mexico"
Year for Search1973
AuthorsSladek, John T[homas](1937-2000)
Secondary AuthorsDisch, Thomas M[ichael](1940-2008)
Secondary TitleBad Moon Rising
Pagination114-146
Date Published1973
PublisherHarper & Row
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number06-011046-5
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.

Additional Publishers

U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

Author Note

U. S. author (1937-2000) who lived in the England for about twenty years from 1966

Full Text

1973 Sladek, John T[homas] (1937-2000). “The Great Wall of Mexico.” Bad Moon Rising. Ed. Thomas M. Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 114-146. U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-158. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. U. S. author who lived in the England for about twenty years from 1966