"In a Petri Dish, Upstairs"
Title | "In a Petri Dish, Upstairs" |
Year for Search | 1978 |
Authors | Turner, George [Reginald](1916-97) |
Secondary Authors | Harding, Lee [John](b. 1937) |
Secondary Title | Rooms of Paradise |
Pagination | 152-82 |
Date Published | 1978 |
Publisher | Quartet |
Place Published | Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
Annotation | Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian "communal fathers", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38. |
Holding Institutions | A, M, Merril, MoU-St |
Author Note | Australian author (1916-97). |
Full Text | 1978 Turner, George [Reginald] (1916-97). “In a Petri Dish, Upstairs.” Rooms of Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian “communal fathers”, and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth. Australian author. |