| Dancing Gerontius | |
| Author: | Lee Harding |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |
| Published In: | Vision of Tomorrow |
| Publication Type: | Periodical |
| Media Type: | |
| Pub Date: | December 1969 |
Dancing Gerontius is a science fiction short story by Australian writer Lee Harding. It was first published in the December 1969 issue of Vision of Tomorrow,[1] and later included in several Australia sf anthologies.[2]
In a future where medical advances have allowed people to live longer and longer, the problem of what to do with the ever increasing number of older people is "solved" in a rather callous manner, yet one that many of them would accept.
After the story's initial publication in Vision of Tomorrow in December 1969 it was reprinted as follows:
In his review of The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction critic George Turner called the story a "dark vision" and noted that the climatic scene is "a minor tour de force of evocative writing".[5]