Project Gutenberg 2009-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 59 McKimmey, James 1923 2011 McKimmey, James Earl, Jr. Pipe of Peace Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Pipe of Peace" by James McKimmey, Jr. is a science fiction short story that was likely written in the early 1950s. The narrative explores themes of revolution and the human condition, focusing on the struggles of farmers against an increasingly mechanized and oppressive society. The story paints a vivid picture of a farmer who refuses to work, prompting reflections on the power dynamics between labor, technology, and survival. The plot follows Henry, a farmer who decides to stop working the land as a form of protest against the mechanization of agriculture, believing that if all farmers unite to cease their labor, they can disrupt the systems that threaten their livelihoods. His wife, worried about their survival, tries to convince him to return to work, but Henry remains resolute in his stance. The story takes a dark turn when Henry is forcibly taken away by men who represent the mechanized oppression he fears, leaving behind an image of his pipe, symbolizing his lost peace and humanity. This stark conclusion questions the cost of human resistance in a world increasingly governed by machines. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 34252 34260 2024-09-13T05:12:21.442937 2023-09-13T10:08:01.101437 text/html text/html 30184 2021-01-05T19:40:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 137265 2021-01-05T19:40:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 179784 2024-09-13T05:12:24.568894 application/epub+zip 178377 2024-09-13T05:12:22.633962 application/epub+zip 53391 2024-09-13T05:12:21.865951 application/epub+zip 260752 2024-09-13T05:12:26.050951 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 253160 2024-09-13T05:12:23.997983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 98724 2022-09-14T06:04:25.658347 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 27964 27863 2024-09-13T05:12:21.146973 2023-09-13T10:08:00.831418 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 27836 2021-01-05T19:40:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10579 2021-01-05T19:40:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18535 2024-09-13T05:12:26.187949 application/rdf+xml 10001 2024-09-13T05:12:22.197910 image/jpeg 2670 2024-09-13T05:12:22.030969 image/jpeg 179297 2024-09-13T05:12:21.453977 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog