"Inertia"
Title | "Inertia" |
Year for Search | 1990 |
Authors | Kress, Nancy [Anne Koningisor](b. 1948) |
Secondary Title | Analog Science Fact and Fiction |
Volume / Edition | 110.1& 2 |
Pagination | 106-28 |
Date Published | January 1990 |
ISSN Number | 1059-2113 |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28. |
Holding Institutions | Merril, PSt |
Author Note | Female author (b. 1948). |
Full Text | 1990 Kress, Nancy [Anne Koningisor] (b. 1948). “Inertia.” Analog Science Fact and Fiction 110.1&2 (January 1990): 106-28. Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams ( Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian. Female author. |