Growing Up in Edge City

'''Pohl, Frederik. "Growing Up in Edge City."' In Epoch''. Robert Silverberg and Roger Elwood, eds. New York: Berkley, 1975. Coll. Pohlstars. New York: Ballantine, 1984.

A little boy exits the enclosed, machine-dominated Edge City and finds a wondrous world outside, one with a colony of Dropouts. As an adult, he leads an attack on the Dropouts to further his political career. See for a bitter and brilliant variation on a theme running from E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" to R. Silverberg's The World Inside, cited in this Category.