"J-Line To Nowhere"

Title"J-Line To Nowhere"
Year for Search1969
AuthorsHenderson, Zenna [Charlson](1917-83)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition37.3
Pagination11-127
Date PublishedSeptember 1969
ISBN Number978-1-61037-338-8
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.

Holding Institutions

PSt, SFF

Author Note

Female author (1917-83).

Full Text

1969 Henderson, Zenna [Charlson] (1917-83). “J-Line to Nowhere.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 37.3 (September 1969): 11-127. Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96. PSt, SFF

Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside. Female author.