Project Gutenberg 2016-02-21 Public domain in the USA. 129 Evans, Dean Kull, George Thorne The Furious Rose Produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1952 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Furious Rose" by Dean Evans is a science fiction short story that appeared in "Galaxy Science Fiction" in the early 1950s. Set in a dystopian future where executions are mechanized and devoid of human emotion, the narrative explores themes of morality, justice, and the emotional toll of bureaucratic duty. The central topic revolves around the mechanized execution process where society has lost its humanity in the name of progress. The story follows Tony Radek, the Federal Executioner, as he navigates his role in an emotionally detached system where the condemned are subjected to "Neg-Emote," a process that strips them of their emotions following a guilty verdict. When Tony encounters John's wife, Mrs. Haley, waiting in despair over her husband's impending execution, he grapples with a moral dilemma: to ease her pain by shielding her from the reality of her husband's fate or to uphold the cold efficiency expected of him. As the execution approaches, Tony's internal conflict intensifies, revealing the crushing weight of his responsibilities and the cruel absurdities of a society where life and death decisions are mere clockwork. Ultimately, the story presents a bleak commentary on the nature of justice and the cost of emotional detachment in a world ruled by bureaucratic rigidity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 86.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Executions and executioners -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 53460 2025-06-20T14:35:05.230915 text/html 29790 2024-10-23T00:04:53 text/html 149543 2025-06-20T14:35:07.235920 application/epub+zip 148388 2025-06-20T14:35:05.664894 application/epub+zip 87137 2025-06-20T14:35:05.427959 application/epub+zip 186608 2025-06-20T14:35:08.600918 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 179311 2025-06-20T14:35:07.003932 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 118303 2022-09-23T10:31:49.020693 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46210 2023-09-22T08:48:53.204389 text/plain 26485 2024-10-23T00:04:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16284 2025-06-20T14:35:08.748891 application/rdf+xml 25914 2025-06-20T14:35:05.509898 image/jpeg 4664 2025-06-20T14:35:05.466941 image/jpeg 135052 2025-06-20T14:35:05.244918 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog