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Null-ABC
John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper
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"There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible ...?"
"There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible ...?"
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"Chief wants to see you, right away," the saloon keeper said.
The brewer nodded. "All right. Keep me covered; don't know how long I'll be." He crossed the room and opened a corner-cupboard, stepping inside.
The corner cupboard, which was an elevator, took him to a tunnel below the street. Across the street, he entered another elevator, set the indicator for the tenth floor, and ascended. As the car rose, he could feel the personality of Frank Cardon, Illiterate brewer, drop from him, as though he were an actor returning from the stage to his dressing room.
The room into which he emerged was almost that. There was a long table, at which two white-smocked Literates drank coffee and went over some papers; a third Literate sprawled in a deep chair, resting; at a small table, four men in black shirts and leather breech. . . Read More
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Literate First Class Elliot C. Mongery, revealed by a quick left quarter-turn of the pickup camera, wore the same starchy white smock, the same Sam Browne belt glittering with the badges of the organizations and corporations for whom he was authorized to practice Lite
A remarkably present and chilling piece of speculative fiction having been written in 1953. (Probably quite inspirational for a few contemporary authors we may all know as well.)
Fairly standard old school SF tale, very light on characterisation and rather familiar in its overall plot, though the setting, with its firm social separation of Literate and Illiterate society, was at least an interesting one, and uncomfortably calls to mind the anti-intellectualism seen today.
Literates concoct a nefarious scheme to take over the country from the Illiterates. Features election politics as a blood sport, climaxed by a pitched battle in a large department store. Not so funny in hindsight.
Null-ABC explores a future society where intellectuals are the lower class in thrall to non-intellectual masters thanks to the results of a number of world wars. The first chapter is an interesting discourse of what being non-intellectual means. Interesting to note is that most of society can't read
This may be my new favorite H. Beam Piper story.
It has a few assumptions I don't agree with, and it typically paternalistic and cigarette-filled, but it gets so many little things dead on, especially early in the story. Social and political aspects just as relevant today as they were 60 years ago or