Terminus
Title | Terminus |
Year for Search | 1971 |
Authors | Daventry, Leonard [John](1915-87) |
Date Published | 1971 |
Publisher | Robert Hale & Co. |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Dystopia where radioactive fallout from the bomb tests of the forties and fifties had caused cancers in babies and young children that led to a drop in the birthrate. Most people carry guns. Another society, the Terminus of the title, is a world without and disparaging of ideals; it is society that results from an upheaval in the original dystopia. |
Holding Institutions | NZ |
Author Note | (b. 1915) |
Full Text | 1971 Daventry, Leonard [John] (b. 1915). Terminus. London: Robert Hale & Co. NZ Dystopia where radioactive fallout from the bomb tests of the forties and fifties had caused cancers in babies and young children that led to a drop in the birthrate. Most people carry guns. Another society, the Terminus of the title, is a world without and disparaging of ideals; it is society that results from an upheaval in the original dystopia. |