"The Test"

Title"The Test"
Year for Search1954
AuthorsMatheson, Richard [Burton](1926-2013)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition7.5 (42)
Pagination54-69
Date PublishedNovember 1954
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia in which older people are required to take a test that checks intellectual, physical, and psychological competence. Those who fail must die.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 19-38.

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Author Note

(1926-2013)

Full Text

1954 Matheson, Richard [Burton] (1926-2013). “The Test.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.5 (42) (November 1954): 54-69. Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 19-38. PSt

Dystopia in which older people are required to take a test that checks intellectual, physical, and psychological competence. Those who fail must die.