Retro Review - The Island of Unreason (1933) by Edmond Hamilton up at Fantastic Worlds

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Synopsis:  This is the tale of Allan Mann (serial number 2473R6), a young man who is a bit too passionate to fell well into the rigidly-Technocratic society of the early 4th Millennium A.D.  When he refuses to let the atomic-motor project he's been working on for the past two years be simply turned over to another engineer, he is arrested for a "breach of reason."  The penalty is exile, for an indefinite term, to the Island of Unreason, a small body of land located in the ocean some 300 miles from City 72 (which the ancients knew as New York City).  There, people must live with neither the protection of law nor the support of the paternalistic society of this future time.

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