"Tranquility, or Else!"

Title"Tranquility, or Else!"
Year for Search1959
AuthorsLeiber, Fritz [Reuter] [Jr.](1910-92)
Secondary TitleFantastic Science Fiction
Volume / Edition 8.11
Pagination89-129
Date PublishedNovember 1959
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99. 

Author Note

(1910-92)

Full Text

1959 Leiber, Fritz [Reuter, Jr.] (1910-92). “Tranquility, or Else!” Fantastic Science Fiction 8.11 (November 1959): 89-129. Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99.

Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.