Out There in Children's Science Fiction: Forward into the Past

Nodelman, Perry. "Out There in Children's Science Fiction: Forward into the Past." SFS #37, 12.3 (Nov. 1985): 285-96.

High-tech, enclosed cities in, primarily, children's S. F., with comparisons and contrasts with selected non-S. F. stories for young people and with three S. F. works not marketed for children: E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," A. C. Clarke's The City and the Stars, and H. Harrison's Captive Universe (q.v. under Fiction). See for H. M. Hoover's This Time of Darkness (1980), Suzanne Martel's The City Under Ground (trans. Norah Smaridge, from Quatre Montréalais en l'an 3000, 1964/1982), Andre Norton's Outside (1976), Ann Schlee's The Vandal (1983). Very important essay for technology vs. nature. See this Category, M. P. Esmonde, "From Little Buddy to Big Brother."