Mating center

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Mating center

by Frank Belknap Long

EN·~4 hours·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
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4:21:25

Description

In a future where love has been reduced to a regulated biological function, the world’s most powerful Council gathers in a massive, tiered hall to enforce the harsh laws of the “Mating Center.” The society’s towering factories, atomic generators, and supervised recreation spaces all exist under the watchful eye of Ruling‑Caste Monitors, whose sole purpose is to prevent any unauthorized affection from threatening the social order.

Against this backdrop, a nervous young man named Teleman is thrust into a sudden, intimate encounter with a mysterious woman who urges him to feel what has been stripped away. Her desperate pleas spark a volatile confrontation that erupts into a public outcry, exposing the fragile line between control and rebellion. As the hall quivers with whispered dissent, listeners are drawn into the tense first act of a story that questions how far a civilization will go to suppress the most human of instincts.

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Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (250K characters)

Series

A Chariot book : exciting reading for men, 162

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Chariot Books, 1961.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2023-08-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long

1903–1994

A prolific storyteller of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, he spent decades shaping weird fiction on both the page and in pulp magazines. He is especially remembered for stories like The Hounds of Tindalos and for his close literary ties to H. P. Lovecraft and the early Cthulhu Mythos.

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