Project Gutenberg 2016-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 66 West, Wallace 1900 1980 West, Wallace George Dawningsburgh Reading ease score: 75.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Dawningsburgh" by Wallace West is a science fiction novel written during the early 1960s. The book explores the themes of disappointment and the search for authentic experiences through the eyes of tourists visiting a fabricated Martian city that has been commercialized for entertainment. The setting reflects a society that has commodified its history and culture, which leads to a critique of both tourism and the human tendency to seek superficial pleasures. The story follows Betsy O'Reilly, a disillusioned tourist, as she embarks on a quest to discover the true essence of Mars beneath the layers of artificiality and consumerism. Disappointed by her experiences in the tourist trap of Dawningsburgh, she ventures out into the cold Martian night, where she encounters Pitaret Mura, an atavistic Martian who has survived in a world largely controlled by robots and simulacra. As they interact, Mura reveals his desire to punish tourists for their misconceptions about Mars, but Betsy suggests a rather clever punishment: to force tourists to live out their mundanity indefinitely. This proposal shifts the narrative from violence to a reflection on the consequences of a shallow existence, creating a unique bond between them that underscores the conflict between authenticity and artifice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Martians -- Fiction Mars (Planet) -- Fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Tourists -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 43486 43492 2024-10-21T13:35:45.185453 2023-09-22T10:26:39.058786 text/html text/html 39833 2016-04-04T23:08:06 text/html; charset=us-ascii 155943 2016-04-04T23:08:18 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 175019 2024-10-21T13:35:46.935438 application/epub+zip 173945 2024-10-21T13:35:45.577439 application/epub+zip 76608 2024-10-21T13:35:45.366434 application/epub+zip 206130 2024-10-21T13:35:48.203487 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199786 2024-10-21T13:35:46.733432 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102654 2022-09-23T14:13:17.458452 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37811 37716 2024-10-21T13:35:45.073431 2023-09-22T10:26:38.903782 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 38072 2016-04-04T23:08:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 15164 2016-04-04T23:08:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21219 2024-10-21T13:35:48.329452 application/rdf+xml 17164 2024-10-21T13:35:45.430466 image/jpeg 3175 2024-10-21T13:35:45.397441 image/jpeg 157000 2024-10-21T13:35:45.195444 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 en.wikipedia