"A Voice Across The Years"
Title | "A Voice Across The Years" |
Year for Search | 1932 |
Authors | [Pratt], [Inga Marie Stephens](1906-70), and Pratt, [Murray] Fletcher(1897-1956) |
Tertiary Authors | Stephens, I. M. [pseud.], and Pratt, Fletcher |
Secondary Title | Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) |
Volume / Edition | 5.1 |
Pagination | 2-73 |
Date Published | Winter 1932 |
Keywords | English author, Female author, Male author |
Annotation | Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962. |
Title Note | Rpt. as Alien Planet |
Pseudonym | I.M. Stephens [pseud. of Inga Marie Stephens Pratt |
Holding Institutions | CU-Riv, Merril |
Author Note | Inga (1906-70) Fletcher (1897-1956) |
Full Text | 1932 [Pratt, Inga Marie Stephens] (1906-70) and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956). “A Voice Across The Years.” By I.M. Stephens [pseud.] and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, IL) 5.1 (Winter 1932): 2-73. Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962. CU-Riv, Merril Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching. Female co-author. |