"The Weather in the Underworld"

Title"The Weather in the Underworld"
Year for Search1965
AuthorsFree, Colin [Lewis](1925-96)
Secondary TitleSquire (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Volume / Edition1.6
Pagination8-10, 55
Date Published[June] 1965
KeywordsAustralian author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57. 

Holding Institutions

A, M, Merril, NZ

Author Note

Australian author (1925-96).

Full Text

1965 Free, Colin [Lewis] (1925-96). “The Weather in the Underworld.” Squire (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.6 ([June] 1965): 8-10, 55. Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57. A, M, Merril, NZ

Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside. Australian author.