TROLLOPE, Anthony

TROLLOPE, Anthony
(1815-1882)
   UK writer whose most famous novels make up the Barchester Chronicles. His 61st book, and sole venture into sf, The Fixed Period (1882), written a few years before his death, understandably (though evasively: no one actually dies in the book) concentrated upon that topic. It is 1980 on an ISLAND near New Zealand where sheep farmers areestablishing an ambiguous UTOPIA in which no one will be allowed to live past the age of 67 - the age at which AT would in fact die. The Navy arrives in time to avert implementation of the scheme. Though not one of AT's stronger novels, it remains a speculation of interest, anddemonstrates the vigour of its author's rather gloomy Indian summer.
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   See also: MACHINES.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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