"Reap the Dark Tide"
| Title | "Reap the Dark Tide" |
| Year for Search | 1958 |
| Authors | Kornbluth, C[yril] M[ichael](1923-58) |
| Tertiary Authors | Kornbluth, C. M. |
| Secondary Title | Vanguard Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 1.1 |
| Pagination | 99-127 |
| Date Published | June 1958 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. as "Shark Ship." In his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958), 166-196; in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305. |
| Holding Institutions | CU-Riv, PSt |
| Full Text | 1958 Kornbluth, Cyril M[ichael] (1923-58). “Reap the Dark Tide.” Vanguard Science Fiction 1.1 (June 1958): 99-127. Rpt. as “Shark Ship.” In his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958), 166-196; Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305. CU-Riv, PSt Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected. |
