"Rite of Passage"

Title"Rite of Passage"
Year for Search1954
AuthorsOliver, [Symmes[ Chad[wick](1928-1993)
Tertiary AuthorsOliver, Chad
Secondary TitleAstounding Science Fiction (New York)
Volume / Edition 53
Pagination49-86
Date PublishedApril 1954
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Two societies, both eutopias, although it is said that they are real and thus not utopias. One is technological and the other rejects technology and appears primitive but is in fact the more advanced.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Another Kind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 15-60; and in his Far From This Earth and other stories. Volume 2 of selected stories [Dust jacket title is Far From This Earth: Selected Short Stories of Chad Oliver. Volume 2]. Ed. Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 249-84.

Pseudonym

Chad Oliver [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

Merril, SFF, PSt

Author Note

(1928-93)

Full Text

1954 Oliver, Chad [Symmes Chadwick] (1928-93). “Rite of Passage.” Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 53 (April 1954): 49-86. Rpt. in his Another Kind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 15-60; and in his Far From This Earth and other stories. Volume 2 of selected stories [Dust jacket title is Far From This Earth: Selected Short Stories of Chad Oliver. Volume 2]. Ed. Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 249-84. Merril, SFF, PSt

Two societies, both eutopias, although it is said that they are real and thus not utopias. One is technological and the other rejects technology and appears primitive but is in fact the more advanced.