A Prison Make
Unknown
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Description
William Stuart wrote A Prison Make, a science fiction tale printed in Amazing Stories in July 1962, with pictures by Finlay. A note at the head calls it Kafka-like, and warns that the hero stands for any man who picks the safety of a known horror over the risk of the unknown. That link, the note says, is no accident.
The tale opens on a man on a bunk who wakes, but not up, barely moving and keeping his eyes shut. Dread hangs over the first scene before any facts arrive. Stuart builds the story as a trap of the mind, where a cell may be both a place and a habit. Readers get a short, bleak fable.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |