Whoever You Are

Merril, Judith."Whoever You Are." Startling Stories Dec. 1952. Coll. The Best of Judith Merril. [New York:] Warner, [1976]. Out of Bounds. New York: Pyramid, [1960]. Survival Ship and Other Stories. Toronto: Kakabeka, [1974].

"Secure within the womb-enclosure of the Web [the defensive system protecting our solar system], five billion Solar citizens could wreak their wills upon their little worlds, and carry on the ever more complex design for nourishment of all the intra-System castes and categories" (Survival Ship 182; see also 181]).