Title: The fixed period
Subtitle: a novel
Description: Trollope's only science fiction novel, written in 1880, is set in the year 1980 on an island near New Zealand where euthanasia for citizens over the age of 67 is compulsory.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Killing of the elderly, Killing of the Aged, Australia, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general
Places: Australia
Time periods: 19th century