"A New World"

Title"A New World"
Year for Search1987
AuthorsGray, Alasdair [James](1934-2019)
Secondary TitleFiction Magazine
Volume / Edition6.2
Pagination12-13
Date Published1987
KeywordsMale 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. 

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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. 

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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.