"A Nice Morning Drive"
| Title | "A Nice Morning Drive" |
| Year for Search | 1973 |
| Authors | Foster, Richard S. |
| Secondary Title | Road & Track |
| Volume / Edition | 25.3 |
| Pagination | 148-50 |
| Date Published | November 1973 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author is now Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. |
| Full Text | 1973 Foster, Richard S. “A Nice Morning Drive.” Road & Track 25.3 (November 1973): 148-50. Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83. PSt A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car. The author is now Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. |
