Global InformationThe Santaroga Barrier information
 Cover of first edition (paperback) | |
| Author | Frank Herbert |
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| Cover artist | Paul Lehr[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Berkley Books |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 255 |
| ISBN | 0-7653-4251-0 |
The Santaroga Barrier is a 1968 science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert. Considered to be an "alternative society" or "alternative culture" novel,[2] it deals with themes such as psychology, the counterculture of the 1960s, and psychedelic drugs.[3] It was originally serialized in Amazing Stories magazine from October 1967 to February 1968, and came out in a paperback from Berkley Books later in 1968.[4] The book has been described as "an ambiguous utopia,"[5][6] and Herbert told Tim O'Reilly that The Santaroga Barrier was intended to describe a society that "half my readers would think was utopia, the other half would think was dystopia."[5] O'Reilly writes:
In deliberate imitation of [B.F.] Skinner's Walden Two, the story is organized around a "conversion" theme, in which a hostile outsider is persuaded of the merits of a society he initially criticizes. Where Skinner makes a sincere attempt to sell a utopian ideal, however, Herbert's deeper concern is to re-create the process by which a man gives up his individual perspective for a group dream.[7]
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- ^ Malmgren, Carl Darryl (1991) Worlds apart: narratology of science fiction Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, page 79, ISBN 0-253-33645-7
- ^ Gary K. Wolfe, (1979).
- ^ Herbert, Frank (1968) The Santaroga Barrier (A Berkley medallion book, S1615) Berkley Publishing Corporation, New York OCLC 18111876
- ^ a b O'Reilly, Timothy. Frank Herbert, Ungar, 1981, ISBN 080442666X (p.131-33).
- ^ Frank Herbert by Timothy O'Reilly. Google books. Retrieved 01 June 2014
- ^ "Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert: Chapter 6: An Ecology of Consciousness - O'Reilly Media". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.