Past Master
| Title | Past Master |
| Year for Search | 1968 |
| Authors | Lafferty, R[aphael] A[loysius](1914-2002) |
| Tertiary Authors | Lafferty, R. A. |
| Date Published | 1968 |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40). U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968 |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, PSt |
| Author Note | (1914-2002) |
| Full Text | 1968 Lafferty, R[aphael] A[loysius] (1914-2002). Past Master. New York: Ace Books. Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40). U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968. DLC, PSt A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity. |
