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4.0 out of 5 stars
Dystopian nightmares at their best...,
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This review is from: Beyond Bedlam (Paperback)
Originally titled LIVING WAY OUT, this collection by the somewhat mysterious Oklahoma sci-fi author Wyman Woods Guin includes the short pieces, "A Man of the Renaissance," "My Darling Hecate," "The Delegate from Guapanga," "The Root and the Ring," "Trigger Tide," "Volpla," "Evidence for Whooping Cranes," and the 1951 novella from which this collection takes its name, BEYOND BEDLAM.
That novella is good enough to justify buying this collection, just for it. It tells the story of a future world in which schizophrenics have taken control, and everyone is forced to inject themselves with drugs to be just like them, to force their multiple personalities into time shares of a single life, and tells of one Santa Fe family who tries to resist. It is, almost without a doubt, one of the most oppressive examples of dystopian fiction I have ever read; at points, it was almost unbearable, and I frequently wanted nothing more than to stop reading it--though the story was compelling enough that I couldn't. Wyman Guin was an advertising executive for a pharmaceutical company, which makes the title story all the creepier for its being informed by real life. The novella is also available in THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT NOVELS, but after reading BEYOND BEDLAM, you will almost certainly want to have more by the same author. ...So you might as well get this.
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