Under Compulsion

Under Compulsion

Infobox Book
name = Under Compulsion
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition.
author = Thomas M. Disch
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cover_artist = Ken Reilly
country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Rupert Hart-Davis
release_date = 1968
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 220 pp
isbn = NA
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"Under Compulsion" is a collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1968 in the UK. It was subsequently published in the US in 1970 by Doubleday under the title "Fun with Your New Head". Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines "Escapade", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "New Worlds", "Fantastic", "Amazing Stories", "Impulse" and "Playboy".

Contents

* "The Roaches"
* "Come to Venus Melancholy"
* "Linda and Daniel and Spike"
* "Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit"
* "Descending"
* "Nada"
* "Now Is Forever"
* "The Contest"
* " The Empty Room"
* "The Squirrel Cage"
* "The Number You Have Reached"
* "1-A"
* "Fun with Your New Head"
* "The City of Penetrating Light"
* "Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism"
* "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Controls in the U.S.A."
* "Casablanca"

References

*cite web
last = Contento
first = William G.
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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
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url = http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t37.htm#A800
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accessdate = 2008-06-30
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=145 | date=1974 | id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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