"The Insane Ones"

Title"The Insane Ones"
Year for Search1962
AuthorsBallard, J[ames] G[raham](1930-2009)
Tertiary AuthorsBallard, J. G.
Secondary TitleAmazing Stories
Volume / Edition36.1
Pagination36-46
Date PublishedJanuary 1962
ISSN Number0002-6891
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

Author Note

(1930-2009)

Full Text

1962 Ballard, J[ames] G[raham] (1930-2009). “The Insane Ones.” Amazing Stories 36.1 (January 1962): 36-46. Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.