"Paradise and Iron"
| Title | "Paradise and Iron" |
| Year for Search | 1930 |
| Authors | Breuer, Miles J[ohn] [M.D.](1889-1947) |
| Secondary Title | Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) |
| Volume / Edition | 3.3 |
| Pagination | 292-363, 401 |
| Date Published | Summer 1930 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril, PSt |
| Author Note | (1889-1947) |
| Full Text | 1930 Breuer, Miles J., [M.D.] (1889-1947). “Paradise and Iron.” Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) 3.3 (Summer 1930): 292-363, 401. Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256. Merril, PSt Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work. |
