Project Gutenberg 2016-02-21 Public domain in the USA. 73 Evans, Dean Kull, George Thorne The Furious Rose Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Furious Rose" by Dean Evans is a science fiction short story that appeared in "Galaxy Science Fiction" in the early 1950s. Set in a dystopian future where executions are mechanized and devoid of human emotion, the narrative explores themes of morality, justice, and the emotional toll of bureaucratic duty. The central topic revolves around the mechanized execution process where society has lost its humanity in the name of progress. The story follows Tony Radek, the Federal Executioner, as he navigates his role in an emotionally detached system where the condemned are subjected to "Neg-Emote," a process that strips them of their emotions following a guilty verdict. When Tony encounters John's wife, Mrs. Haley, waiting in despair over her husband's impending execution, he grapples with a moral dilemma: to ease her pain by shielding her from the reality of her husband's fate or to uphold the cold efficiency expected of him. As the execution approaches, Tony's internal conflict intensifies, revealing the crushing weight of his responsibilities and the cruel absurdities of a society where life and death decisions are mere clockwork. Ultimately, the story presents a bleak commentary on the nature of justice and the cost of emotional detachment in a world ruled by bureaucratic rigidity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Executions and executioners -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 53276 53280 2024-09-21T11:44:56.695237 2023-09-22T08:48:53.361398 text/html text/html 49630 2016-02-21T12:29:56 text/html; charset=us-ascii 133914 2016-02-21T12:29:58 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 149434 2024-09-21T11:44:58.584222 application/epub+zip 148360 2024-09-21T11:44:57.061223 application/epub+zip 87112 2024-09-21T11:44:56.863243 application/epub+zip 186128 2024-09-21T11:44:59.924225 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 179243 2024-09-21T11:44:58.369230 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 118303 2022-09-23T10:31:49.020693 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46305 46210 2024-09-21T11:44:56.563222 2023-09-22T08:48:53.204389 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 46205 2016-02-21T12:29:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17396 2016-02-21T12:29:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18790 2024-09-21T11:45:00.067215 application/rdf+xml 25914 2024-09-21T11:44:56.928234 image/jpeg 4664 2024-09-21T11:44:56.896220 image/jpeg 134983 2024-09-21T11:44:56.706235 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