The Great Wall of Mexico (short story)

"The Great Wall of Mexico"
Author John Sladek
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Published in Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings
Publication type Anthology
Publisher Harper & Row
Media type hardback
Publication date 1973

"The Great Wall of Mexico" is a science fiction short story by John Sladek. It was first published in the 1973 anthology Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings edited by Thomas M. Disch. It was also published in Sladek's 1977 collection Keep the Giraffe Burning and uploaded to the online science fiction magazine Sci Fiction on December 21, 2005.

Reception

In reviewing Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction columnist Joanna Russ said "John Sladek's 'The Great Wall of Mexico' attacks its subject by way of an eerie, funny, subversive, almost-surrealism quite impossible to describe; you may get some of the flavor of it if I tell you that the FBI is using retired Senior Citizens to listen to bugged conversations in public places, and that one of them, loyal as he is, vows after his first two hours' excruciating listening that he will never say anything dull in a public place again."[1]

References

  1. Russ, Joanna (February 1974), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, pp. 69–70

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, October 15, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.