An edition of The joy makers (1961)

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An edition of The joy makers (1961)

The joy makers

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The three parts of James Gunn's fix-up novel The Joy Makers (1961) were originally published in magazine form in 1955 as 'Name Your Pleasure,' 'The Naked Sky', and 'The Unhappy Man.' I have not read the originals so I'm unsure of how much was added or subtracted or completely re-conceptualized. Largely a satire -- Gunn pushes his point to the logical, and terrifying extreme -- each part is a further chronological progression of a society whose chief aim is to make people happy. It is hard not to read Part I as a satirical take on some aspects of Scientology, a movement that was gaining force in the early 1950s.

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Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Pages
213

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The Joy Makers
May 1997, Buccaneer Books
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Cover of: The joy makers
The joy makers
1985, Robson
in English
Cover of: The joy makers
The joy makers
1984, Crown
in English - 1st Crown ed.
Cover of: The Joy Makers
The Joy Makers
1976, Panther
Paperback
Cover of: The joy makers
The joy makers
1971, Bantam Books
in English - New Bantam ed.
Cover of: The joy makers
The joy makers
March 1961, Bantam Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Classics of modern science fiction ;, v. 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3513.U797 J6 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 213 p. ;
Number of pages
213

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3180611M
Internet Archive
joymakers00gunn
ISBN 10
0517551845
LCCN
83023236
OCLC/WorldCat
10147287
Library Thing
181573
Goodreads
3934638

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