"Peace Agent"
Title | "Peace Agent" |
Year for Search | 1954 |
Authors | Pease, M. C. |
Secondary Authors | Lowndes, Robert W. |
Secondary Title | Science Fiction Stories |
Volume / Edition | 2nd ed. |
Pagination | 41-67 |
Date Published | 1954 |
Publisher | Columbia Publications |
Place Published | New York |
Annotation | Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the US. |
Holding Institutions | Merril |
Full Text | 1954 Pease, M.C. “Peace Agent.” Science Fiction Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Lowndes (New York: Columbia Publications, 1954): 41-67. Merril Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the U.S. |