"Piñons"
| Title | "Piñons" |
| Year for Search | 1989 |
| Authors | [Kaufman], [Stephen](b. 1947) |
| Tertiary Authors | River, Uncle [pseud.] |
| Secondary Title | Tales of the Unanticipated |
| Volume / Edition | no. 6 |
| Pagination | 35-39 |
| Date Published | Fall/Winter 1989/1990 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world's economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94. Also at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205. |
| URL | http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm |
| Pseudonym | Uncle River [pseud.] |
| Holding Institutions | CU-Riv |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1947) was a Jungian analyst. |
| Full Text | 1989/90 [Kaufman, Stephen] (b. 1947). “Piñons.” By Uncle River [pseud.]. Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 6 (Fall/Winter 1989/1990): 35-39. Rpt. in Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94; and at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205. CU-Riv Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world’s economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors. The author was a Jungian analyst. |
