Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children's, grandchildren's, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.
BT - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) C5 -Merril
C6 -(1928-2005)
C7 - December 1952 DA - 12/1952 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in his Untouched by Human Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 12-23; in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology. Ed. , Brian W[ilson]. Aldiss and Sam Lundwall (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1986), 88-97; and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 17-26.
N2 -Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children's, grandchildren's, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.
PY - 1952 SP - 128 EP - 136 T2 - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) TI - "Cost of Living" VL - 5.3 SN - 0016-4003 ER -