"It's Cold Outside"
| Title | "It's Cold Outside" |
| Year for Search | 1956 |
| Authors | Wilson, Richard(1920-1987) |
| Secondary Title | If Worlds of Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 7.1 |
| Pagination | 4-35, 116 |
| Date Published | December 1956 |
| ISBN Number | 9781605436425 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story begins in a regimented New York City in which there is no rain because it has been diverted to where it will fill a reservoir. Any “Suggestion” of the City-State Council is, in effect, law. Children are grown in a laboratory from the egg and sperm of the parents because the Council “suggests” that parents don’t do it the old way. The focus of the story is a couples’ resistance to the entire system and their desire to escape to the outside. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Science Fantasy 8.22 (1957): 2-39; in his Those Idiots From Earth: Ten Science-Fiction Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 115-60; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Ramble House/Dancing Tutara Press, 2012), 231-274. |
| Illustration | Illus. Emsh [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)]. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril, MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1929-87) was director of the News Bureau of Syracuse University. |
| Full Text | 1956 Wilson, Richard (1920-1987). “It’s Cold Outside.” Illus. Emsh [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)]. If Worlds of Science Fiction (Buffalo, NY) 7.1 (December 1956): 4-35, 116. Rpt. in Science Fantasy 8.22 (1957): 2-39; in his Those Idiots From Earth: Ten Science-Fiction Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 115-60; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Ramble House/Dancing Tutara Press, 2012), 231-274. Merril, MoU-St, PSt The story begins in a regimented New York City in which there is no rain because it has been diverted to where it will fill a reservoir. Any “Suggestion” of the City-State Council is, in effect, law. Children are grown in a laboratory from the egg and sperm of the parents because the Council “suggests” that parents don’t do it the old way. The focus of the story is a couples’ resistance to the entire system and their desire to escape to the outside. The author was director of the News Bureau of Syracuse University. |
