Mission in Space
| Title | Mission in Space |
| Year for Search | 1994 |
| Authors | Selby, John B. Sr., M.D.(b. 1916) |
| Pagination | 84 pp. |
| Date Published | 1994 |
| Publisher | Vantage Press |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The brief novel presents two worlds, both of which can be considered flawed utopias with an abrupt shift between the two and an equally abrupt ending. The first, Antiochus, is a high-tech society with no nations, no racial issues due to interbreeding, a carefully maintained ecology. Women deal with public matters, men mostly with the domestic. But everyone is entirely focused on themselves with no interest in others and production declining and lots of accidents and no one cares. The other, Earth in 2379, has all intellectuals on the moon and everyone on the surface of the Earth is focused on their bodies. Gender equality. Solar power. Not really developed. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1924) |
| Full Text | 1994 Selby, John B., Sr., M.D. (b. 1924). Mission in Space. New York: Vantage Press. 84 pp. PSt The brief novel presents two worlds, both of which can be considered flawed utopias with an abrupt shift between the two and an equally abrupt ending. The first, Antiochus, is a high-tech society with no nations, no racial issues due to interbreeding, a carefully maintained ecology. Women deal with public matters, men mostly with the domestic. But everyone is entirely focused on themselves with no interest in others and production declining and lots of accidents and no one cares. The other, Earth in 2379, has all intellectuals on the moon and everyone on the surface of the Earth is focused on their bodies. Gender equality. Solar power. Not really developed. The author was a radiologist. |
