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The Opium of the People

J Alan Erwine

First published July 2000
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Radical fundamentalist Christians take over the US government.

First published in the magazine Aphelion, July, 2000. This story was greatly expanded in 2002 into a novella published as a chapbook, and then revised again when reprinted in 2007. DO NOT MERGE this record with the novella version.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 2000 Cover Aphelion, July 2000 Aphelion MAGAZINE |15
December 2007 Cover Seedlings on the Solar Winds and Other Stories Nomadic Delirium Press Collection 6
March 2008 Cover Seedlings on the Solar Winds and Other Stories Nomadic Delirium Press Collection |6
March 2014 Cover Marionettes on the Moon and Other Stories Nomadic Delirium Press Collection |4
June 2016 Cover J Alan Erwine's Tales of Dystopia J Alan Erwine Collection |2
July 2018 Cover Manic Musings of a Maniacal Mind Nomadic Delirium Press Collection |14
January 2020 Cover Lowering One's Self Before Fate, and Other Stories J Alan Erwine Collection |14
January 2020 Cover Lowering One's Self Before Fate, and Other Stories J Alan Erwine Collection 134