The Luckiest Man in Denv

Kornbluth, C. M. "The Luckiest Man in Denv." Galaxy June 1952 (under pseud. of Simon Eisner [Contento]). Coll. The Marching Morons. New York: Ballantine, [1959]. Rpt. Cities of Wonder, q.v. under Anthologies. See Contento Index for numerous rpts.

Denv is a militarized city, engaged in low-intensity, and interminable, atomic warfare with "Ellay"—a war that may have started over water from the Colorado River (Cities of Wonder 159). See for a young man moving up in his world: personally, politically, and topographically; cf. the literalization of "moving up" in R. Silverberg's The World Inside, listed in this Category.

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