@booklet {3450, title = {Midas World}, year = {1983}, note = {

Parts published previously as 1954 Pohl, \"The Midas Plague\"; \"The Servant of the People.\"\ Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact\ 103.2 (February 1983): 90-105; \"The Man Who Ate the World.\"\ Galaxy Science Fiction\ 13.1 (November 1956): 6-35; \"The Farmer on the Dole.\"\ Omni\ 5.1 (1982): 118-22, 124, 126-27, 164-68; \"The Lord of the Skies.\"\ Amazing Science Fiction\ 57.2 (July 1983): 114-62; and \"The New Neighbors.\"\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 64.5 (May 1983): 137-58.

}, month = {1983}, publisher = {St. Martin{\textquoteright}s Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Series of loosely connected stories stemming from his 1954 \"The Midas Plague.\" The only previously unpublished story, \"The Fire-Bringer\" (1-4), serves as an introduction This is followed by 1954 Pohl, \"The Midas Plague\" (5-74). The other stories then depict aspects of the future of the world created in that story. \"The Servant of the People\" (75-97) is about a Congressman (Congress hold interactive electronic meetings with no one physically present) running against a robot. \"The Man Who Ate the World\" (98-137) is about a compulsive consumer when the need to consume is long past. \"The Farmer on the Dole\" (138-75) is about giving redundant robots new jobs, in this case as a mugger who can only mug other robots. \"The Lord of the Skies\" (176-244) is about life in orbital habitats that draw their power from Earth, whose ecology has been destroyed by the need to send power to the habitats. \"The New Neighbors\" (245-76) is about the future destroyed world now inhabited almost entirely by robots.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013)} }