The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines.
BT - Fantastic Stories of Imagination C5 -PSt
C6 -1933-2022
C7 - May 1965 DA - 05/1965 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192.
N2 -The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines.
PY - 1965 SP - 85 EP - 92 T2 - Fantastic Stories of Imagination TI - “Terminal” VL - 14.4 ER -