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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Fully Alive!
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Some of the characters in this story previously appeared in Smith's earlier novel Celebration of Life (1991). In this later story they are some twenty years older.

Notes

  • Author's note: This story is futuristic fantasy. None of the characters bear any resemblance to any living person. I have to apologise to my American friends for the way I have portrayed their country and I sincerely hope that the USA learns more sense in the next 40 years. Whether the rest of us learn any is also problematical.
  • Epigraph: 'If blood is shed, let it be our blood. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. No power on earth can stand before the march of peaceful, determined and God-fearing people. Non-violence is more powerful than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.' Quoted in Give Peace a Chance by John Ferguson Gooday Publishers, P O Box 60, East Wittering, West Sussex PO20 8RA, England.

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