A dystopia of corrupt capitalism is the background to the story.
}, year = {1974}, journal = {Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology}, pages = {140-78}, month = {01/1974}, publisher = {Charterhouse}, address = {New York}, note = {The author\&$\#$39;s original version was published in the U.K. ed.\ Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 134-70. \"Afterword\" (170-75). Rpt. in Ellison,\ Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories\ (New York: Walker \& Co., 1974), 141-77; and in\ Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll \& Graf, 1996), 126-59.
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