The Happy Breed

'''Sladek, John [T]. "The Happy Breed."' In Dangerous Visions.'' Harlan Ellison, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. New York: Signet-NAL, 1975.

"Therapeutic Environment Machines" protect and serve and infantilize humanity. In his Afterword (406), JTS acknowledges the "Horrible Utopia" tradition generally, and specifically the world without evil JTS sees in Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (French publication, 1954); we note the antiutopian tradition of E. M. Foster's "The Machine Stops," A. Huxley's Brave New World, and J. Williamson's Humanoids stories (q.v., this Category).

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