"The Ultimate City"

Title"The Ultimate City"
Year for Search1953
AuthorsTooker, Richard [Presley](1902-88)
Secondary TitleScience Fiction Plus
Volume / Edition1.2
Pagination48-55
Date PublishedAPril 1953
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Anti-utopian story. Perfection brought about by using atomic power solely for its benefits is so boring that there is a plague of suicides. Some choose to start over with a primitive life.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Science Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 ([September 1955]): 12-27.

Holding Institutions

A, Merril

Author Note

U.S. author (1902-88).

Full Text

1953 Tooker, Richard [Presley] (1902-88). “The Ultimate City.” Science Fiction Plus 1.2 (April 1953): 48-55. Rpt. in Science Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 ([September 1955]): 12-27. A, Merril

Anti-utopian story. Perfection brought about by using atomic power solely for its benefits is so boring that there is a plague of suicides. Some choose to start over with a primitive life. U.S. author.