"The Paradigm"
| Title | "The Paradigm" |
| Year for Search | 1979 |
| Authors | Flynn, Randal(b. 1957) |
| Secondary Authors | Gerrard, Rob |
| Secondary Title | Transmutations |
| Pagination | 179-216 |
| Date Published | 1979 |
| Publisher | Outback Press |
| Place Published | Collingwood, VIC, Australia |
| Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
| Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia. The story focuses on a playwright who on winning a prize must decide on writing for the state or having an implant and being demoted to factory work. Having chosen to write for the state, the story traces the various compromises with his integrity that he has to make. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 269-98. |
| Holding Institutions | A, M |
| Author Note | (b. 1957) |
| Full Text | 1979 Flynn, Randal (b. 1957). “The Paradigm.” Transmutations. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Collingwood, VIC, Australia: Outback Press, 1979), 179-216. Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 269-98. A, M Authoritarian dystopia. The story focuses on a playwright who on winning a prize must decide on writing for the state or having an implant and being demoted to factory work. Having chosen to write for the state, the story traces the various compromises with his integrity that he has to make. |
