[UA] Happy little scenario idea...

[Eves, Eric D.]

>> This is OT, but was it Dick or R A Lafferty that wrote the story about 
 retroactive abortions being legal until the child could do algebra, and
trucks would prowl through neighborhoods to take kids to the pound, and the
kids were in the truck wondering if they could do this to helpless kids, how
long would it be before they started doing it to helpless dogs and cats? I
need it as a reference, and I can't for the life of me remember where I read
it. 
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That's Dick all the way. 
 
The story you remember is called "The pre-persons" and was first printed in
the October 1974 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
 
It's reprinted in the 1981 compilation of Dick's work "The Golden Man", and
possibly elsewhere.
 
As for how I know this, my tiny dorm room contains no TV and no
refrigerator, but about 3/4ths of the work of Phil K. Dick, as well as a
large number of other authors, including some other obscure science fiction,
among many other things.  
 
I'm probably the only person I know who has a copy of Dick's Confessions of
a Crap Artist and a copy of The Confessions of Saint Augustine on the same
shelf.
 


Eric "Random Nerd" Eves

 "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and
not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other" 
-Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 



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