The story is set in a future where the amount of food one receives depends on your work which is determined and judged by a machine. The protagonist is a man who hopes to be promoted but is fired instead and then falls down through the various stages of the community.
}, year = {1963}, journal = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {26.2 (153)}, pages = {37-47}, month = {02/1963}, issn = {00024-984X }, note = {Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK] 5.7 (June 1964): 55-; and in the author\’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 111-124.
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