"Spectator Sport"
| Title | "Spectator Sport" |
| Year for Search | 1950 |
| Authors | Macdonald, John D[ann](1916-86) |
| Secondary Title | Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 35.3 |
| Pagination | 81-84 |
| Date Published | February 1950 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia. The first man to travel to the future is ignored by everyone because they have all had lobotomies (been "lobed"). Everything is run down because people have access to what Aldous Huxley called "feelies" in Brave New World (1932). These allow a person the complete, tactile experience of another existence. In this society they are available temporarily until one has earned enough to be permanently attached to the system. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (London: Grayson & Grayson, [1954]), 99-105. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | (1916-86) |
| Full Text | 1950 Macdonald, John D[ann] (1916-86). “Spectator Sport.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 35.3 (February 1950): 81-84. Rpt. in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (London: Grayson & Grayson, [1954]), 99-105. L, PSt Dystopia. The first man to travel to the future is ignored by everyone because they have all had lobotomies (been “lobed”). Everything is run down because people have access to what Aldous Huxley called “feelies” in Brave New World (1932). These allow a person the complete, tactile experience of another existence. In this society they are available temporarily until one has earned enough to be permanently attached to the system. |
