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The Day Before the Revolution, the Glossary

"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.^[1]

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1974 short stories
Anarchist fiction
Fiction set around Tau Ceti
Nebula Award for Best Short Story-winning works
Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Works about anarchism

Ageing

Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older.

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Algis Budrys

Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.

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Always Coming Home

Always Coming Home is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The Day Before the Revolution and Always Coming Home are anarchist fiction.

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Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Anarchy

Anarchy is a form of society without rulers.

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Ancient astronauts in popular culture

Ancient astronauts have been addressed frequently in science fiction and horror fiction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Borgo Press

The Borgo Press was a small publishing company founded by Robert Reginald in 1975 funded by the royalties gained from his first major reference work, Stella Nova: the contemporary science fiction authors (1970).

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Camden House Publishing

Camden House, Inc. was founded in 1979 by professors James Hardin and Gunther Holst with the purpose of publishing scholarly books in the field of German literature, Austrian Literature, and German language culture.

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Death

Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer.

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Extrapolation is an academic journal covering speculative fiction, established in 1959.

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Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Foundation (journal)

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary journal established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews about science fiction.

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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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General strike

A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal.

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George Edgar Slusser

George Edgar Slusser (July 14, 1939 – November 4, 2014) was an American scholar, professor and writer.

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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Hainish Cycle

The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Short Story

The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Immanence

The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Jo Walton

Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.

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Jupiter Award (science fiction award)

The Jupiters were annual awards presented to science fiction writing annually for the preceding year during 1974 - 1978.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award for Best Short Story

The Locus Award for Best Short Story is one of a series of Locus Awards given every year by Locus Magazine.

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More Women of Wonder

More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes by Women About Women is an anthology of five novelettes and two short stories edited by Pamela Sargent.

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Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.

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Nebula Award for Best Short Story

The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories.

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Nebula Award Stories 10

Nebula Award Stories 10 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by James Gunn.

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Nonlinear narrative

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.

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Pamela Sargent

Pamela Sargent (born March 20, 1948) is an American feminist, science fiction author, and editor.

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Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

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Planet of Exile

Planet of Exile is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, part of her Hainish Cycle.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Private property

Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Reactor (magazine)

Reactor, formerly Tor.com, is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers.

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Robin Anne Reid

Robin Anne Reid is a scholar of literature who has specialized in feminist studies and Tolkien studies.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies (SFS) is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen.

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Sexuality in older age

Sexuality in older age concerns the sexual drive, sexual activity, interests, orientation, intimacy, self-esteem, behaviors, and overall sexuality of people in middle age and old age, and the social perceptions concerning sexuality in older age.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Social Darwinism is the study and implementation of various pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Stroke

Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.

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Syracuse University Press

Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University.

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The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. The Day Before the Revolution and The Dispossessed are anarchist fiction and fiction set around Tau Ceti.

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The Eye of the Heron

The Eye of the Heron is a 1978 science fiction novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin which was first published in the science fiction anthology Millennial Women. The Day Before the Revolution and the Eye of the Heron are anarchist fiction.

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The Farthest Shore

The Farthest Shore is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Atheneum in 1972.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The Day Before the Revolution and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas are 1974 short stories and short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution

Also known as Day Before the Revolution.

, Short story, Social Darwinism, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stroke, Syracuse University Press, The Dispossessed, The Eye of the Heron, The Farthest Shore, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, University of South Carolina Press, Ursula K. Le Guin, Utopian Studies, Vintage Books, Wildside Press, Women of Wonder.

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See also

1974 short stories

Anarchist fiction

Fiction set around Tau Ceti

Nebula Award for Best Short Story-winning works

Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Works about anarchism

References