The Revolt of the Pedestrians story
In a not too distant future, regular legged people are persecuted by people with atrophied legs who ride in wheel chair-like cars.
14 total · 6 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anti-technology way of life | major | The pedestrians were generally contemptuous of technology. But in particular, Abraham Miller did not want to rebuild a technological world after he overthrew autoist society. He wanted no electricity and technology that used it. |
| genocide | major | Senator Glass of New York championed the Pedestrian Extermination Act bill in the senate. It was subsequently passed into law and a veritable genocide on the pedestrians of the United States ensued. |
| resistance movement | major | Pedestrian Abraham Miller led a revolt against the autoists. |
| revolution in society | major | The story centered around a group of persecuted pedestrians who launched a revolution against their motorist oppressors. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Pedestrian Abraham Miller sought to avenge the running down in the street of his ancestor. It was him that led the revolution against the motorists. |
| the future of human evolution | major | We saw a future where there was a bifurcation in human evolution. One line of humans had evolved tiny stubs for legs that suited their car riding habits. The other remained like us. |
| childhood as an outsider | minor | Margaretta had trouble in autoists society because she had been born with long legs. |
| eugenics | minor | The author wrote sarcastically of how crime had been eliminated by force sterilizing the 2 percent of the population that were criminals. |
| father and daughter | minor | Autoists William Henry Heisler and his daughter Margaretta, who had been born with long legs. |
| father and son | minor | A father motored through the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia with his son and they say there on display what the father believed to be the bodies of the last pedestrians. |