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".
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