Terminus

TitleTerminus
Year for Search1971
AuthorsDaventry, Leonard [John](1915-87)
Date Published1971
PublisherRobert Hale & Co.
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish 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.

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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.