"The Kindly Isle"

Title"The Kindly Isle"
Year for Search1984
AuthorsPohl, Frederik [George] [Jr.](1919-2013)
Secondary TitleIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Volume / Edition8.11 (84)
Pagination46-48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58-71
Date PublishedNovember 1984
ISSN Number1065-6298
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A man visits a Caribbean island where all the people seem to be particularly nice and discovers that a scientist has developed a virus which he is intent on spreading around the world, creating a eutopia.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 320-40 with an editor's note on 318.

Author Note

(1919-2013)

Full Text

1984 Pohl, [Jr.], Frederik [George] (1919-2013). “The Kindly Isle.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 8.11 (84) (November 1984): 46-48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58-71. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 320-40 with an editor’s note on 318.

A man visits a Caribbean island where all the people seem to be particularly nice and discovers that a scientist has developed a virus which he is intent on spreading around the world, creating a eutopia.