The Time-Swept City

1977 Monteleone, Thomas F[rancis] (b. 1946). The Time-Swept City. New York: Popular Library. Parts published originally as “Chicago.” Future City. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Trident Press, 1973), 219-35. Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 203-20; “Good and Faithful Servant.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 49.5 (March 1976): 110-18; “Breath’s A Ware That Will Not Keep.” Dystopian Visions. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1975), 2-19; and “Far From Eve and Morning.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.1 (October 1977): 20-29, 91. Merril, PSt

Dystopia. The connected stories are about the city of Chicago over huge reaches of time into the future. The city becomes more and more automated and the inhabitants less and less necessary until the city becomes an automatic self-repairing system with no inhabitants. Outside the city humanity has regressed to a primitive level.