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Short Story

The Pre-persons

1974

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About this story

In a dystopian society, children are denied full personhood and can be taken away if their parents no longer want them. A father's challenge to the system exposes the arbitrary rules used to decide whose life counts.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Dec 20, 1973

    Composition: no later than Dec 20, 1973

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Dec 20, 1973

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Dec 20, 1973

  3. Oct 1974

    First published Oct 1974

    Fantasy and SF