"Historical Note"

Title"Historical Note"
Year for Search1951
Authors[Jenkins], [William Fitzgerald](1896-1975)
Tertiary AuthorsLeinster, Murray [pseud.]
Secondary TitleAstounding Science Fiction
Volume / Edition46.6
Pagination45-57
Date PublishedFebruary 1951
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28.

Pseudonym

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

Merril, PSt

Author Note

(1896-1975)

Full Text

1951 [Jenkins, William Fitzgerald] (1896-1975). “Historical Note.” By Murray Leinster [pseud.]. Astounding Science Fiction 46.6 (February 1951): 45-57. Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28. Merril, PSt

Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists that eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.