"Magdas Career Choice"

Title"Magdas Career Choice"
Year for Search2007
Authors[Lindquist], [Rowena Cory](b. 1958)
Secondary AuthorsFarr, Russell B., and Evans, Nick
Tertiary AuthorsDaniells, Cory [pseud.]
Secondary TitleThe Worker's Paradise
Pagination65-83
Date Published2007
PublisherTiconderoga Publishers
Place PublishedGreenwood, WA, Australia
KeywordsAustralian author, Female author
Annotation

Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person’s career is to be the “scape-grace” (See 2001 Lindquist). A related non-utopian story is "Purgatory." Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an "Afterword" (424).

Info Notes

First publication.

Pseudonym

Cory Daniels [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

PSt

Author Note

Australian female author (b. 1958)

Full Text

2007 [Lindquist, Rowena Cory] (b. 1958). “Magda’s Career Choice.” By Cory Daniells [pseud.]. In The Workers’ Paradise. Ed. Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publishers, 2007), 65-83. First publication. PSt

Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person’s career is to be the “scape-grace” (See 2001 Lindquist).  A related non-utopian story is “Purgatory.” Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an “Afterword” (424). Australian female author.