"The Shining City"

Title"The Shining City"
Year for Search1952
AuthorsVale, Rena [Marie](1898-1983)
Secondary TitleScience Fiction Quarterly
Volume / Edition1.5
Pagination10-48
Date PublishedMay 1952
KeywordsUS author
Annotation

Authoritarian dystopia and generally unsuccessful revolt.

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The female author (1898-1983) testified on communism before the Dies Committee (House Committee on Un-American Activities chaired from 1938 to 1944 by Martin Dies, Jr. [1900-72]) in 1940, provided an affidavit on communism to the California Un-American Activities Committee in 1942, and compiled lists of communists in Southern California for the Subversive Squad of the Los Angeles District Attorney.

Full Text

1952 Vale, Rena [Marie] (1898-1983). “The Shining City.” Science Fiction Quarterly 1.5 (May 1952): 10-48. Merril

Authoritarian dystopia and a generally unsuccessful revolt. The female author testified on communism before the Dies Committee (House Committee on Un-American Activities chaired from 1938 to 1944 by Martin Dies, Jr. [1900-72]) in 1940, provided an affidavit on communism to the California Un-American Activities Committee in 1942, and compiled lists of communists in Southern California for the Subversive Squad of the Los Angeles District Attorney.