"The Pressure of Time"
Title | "The Pressure of Time" |
Year for Search | 1970 |
Authors | Disch, Thomas M[ichael](1940-2008) |
Secondary Authors | Knight, Damon [Francis](1922-2002) |
Secondary Title | Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories |
Pagination | 171-95 |
Date Published | 1970-78 |
Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals. |
Additional Publishers | Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57. |
Info Notes | Intended as part of a forthcoming novel that was never published together with “Things Lost.” In Again, Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 592-612 with an “Introduction” (589-91) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (613) by Disch; “Mutability.” Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 107-26; and “Chanson Perpétuelle.” In Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future. Ed. Jack Dann (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 1-56. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (1940-2008) |
Full Text | 1970-78 Disch, Thomas M. (1940-2008) “The Pressure of Time.” In Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 171-95; rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57. Intended as part of a forthcoming novel that was never published together with “Things Lost.” In Again, Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 592-612 with an “Introduction” (589-91) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (613) by Disch; “Mutability.” Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 107-26; and “Chanson Perpétuelle.” In Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future. Ed. Jack Dann (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 1-56. PSt All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals. |