Christmas Treason
Christmas Treason
Novelette, 9000 words
Richard sat on the woolly rug beside his brother's cot and watched
the gang arrive one by one.
Enter some tomorrow-people children from all over the 1960s cold
War world. Four boys: Richard, Liam (from a "fishing village
on the North Irish coast" -- probably Portstewart), Greg/Gregor
Ivanovitch Krejinski, and buster. Two girls: Mub and Loo.
The Splendid Six form a gestaltic unit much like the one described
in Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human (1953). Using their
combined powers to look for Santa Claus (who lives "somewhere at
the North Pole in a secret cavern under the ice") they end up by
averting World War Three -- permanently. And there's more
. . .
Synopsis by Graham Andrews |
| First Publication: |
- MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, January
1962
|
| Publication history: |
- MAGAZINE of FANTASY & SF, British Edition, January 1964
- 8th ANNUAL YEAR’S BEST SF, Ed Judith Merrill, Simon
& Schuster, 1963
- 8th ANNUAL YEAR’S BEST SF, pb, Dell, New York, December
1964
- BEST OF SCI-FI 4, Mayflower-Dell pb ed, 5/-, August 1965
- SPACE *1, Ed Richard Davis, Abalard-Schuman, September 1973
- TO FOLLOW A STAR, Ed Terry Carr, Thomas Nelson Inc, $6.95,
1978-79
- SANTA 2000, Ed Michael Parry, Dragon, December 1984
- CHRISTMAS ON GANYMEDE, Ed Martin Greenberg, Avon, December
1990
- ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES No 24, Ed Isaac
Asimov & Martin Greenberg, DAW, January 1992
- The White Papers (see under Books).
|
| Foreign Publication: |
- YEAR’S BEST S-F Japanese edition, Tokyo Sogensha Co
Ltd, early 1977
- DEN FANTASTIKS JULIEN, Ed John-Henry Holmberg, Timbro, Sweden,
1985 as Undersokningen
- IKARRE magazine, Czechoslovakia, 28/1/93
|
|
