"The Wait"

Title"The Wait"
Year for Search1958
AuthorsReed, Kit [Lilian Craig](1932-2017)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition14.4 (83)
Pagination56-69
Date PublishedApril 1958
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia set in an isolated Georgia town that enforces a ritual deflowering of eighteen-year-old girls. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. Illus. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 26 (October 1965): 2-15; rpt. Venture Science Fiction (Australia), no. 26 (December 1965): 2-15. Rpt. with typographical variations as “To be Taken in a Strange Country.” In her Mister da V. And Other Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), 11-31.

Author Note

Female author (1932-2017)

Full Text

1958 Reed, Kit [Lilian Craig] (1932-2017). “The Wait.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 14.4 (83) (April 1958): 56-69. Rpt. Illus. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 26 (October 1965): 2-15; rpt. Venture Science Fiction (Australia), no. 26 (December 1965): 2-15. Rpt. with typographical variations as “To be Taken in a Strange Country.” In her Mister da V. And Other Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), 11-31.

Dystopia set in an isolated Georgia town that enforces a ritual deflowering of eighteen-year-old girls. The female author legally changed her name from Lilian Craig Reed to Kit Reed.