@booklet {1414, title = {"Cost of Living"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {5.3 }, year = {1952}, note = {

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.

}, month = {December 1952}, pages = {128-136}, abstract = {

Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children\&$\#$39;s, grandchildren\&$\#$39;s, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} }