"Temptress of Planet Delight"
| Title | "Temptress of Planet Delight" |
| Year for Search | 1953 |
| Authors | Curtis, Betsy [Elizabeth M.](1918-2002) |
| Secondary Title | Planet Stories |
| Volume / Edition | 5.12 |
| Pagination | 4-31 |
| Date Published | May 1953 |
| Keywords | Female author |
| Annotation | Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31. |
| Holding Institutions | C, Merril |
| Author Note | Female author (1918-2002). |
| Full Text | 1953 Curtis, Betsy [Elizabeth M.] (1918-2002). “Temptress of Planet Delight.” Planet Stories 5.12 (May 1953): 4-31. Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31. C, Merril Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained. Female author. |
