"A New World"
Title | "A New World" |
Year for Search | 1987 |
Authors | Gray, Alasdair [James](1934-2019) |
Secondary Title | Fiction Magazine |
Volume / Edition | 6.2 |
Pagination | 12-13 |
Date Published | 1987 |
Keywords | Male author, Scottish author |
Annotation | A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Scottish author (1934-2019). |
Full Text | 1987 Gray, Alasdair [James] (1934-2019). “A New World.” Fiction Magazine 6.2 (March 1987): 12-13. Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24. C, NLS, PSt A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them. Scottish author. |