"Cost of Living"

Year for Search
1952
Secondary Title
Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)
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Annotation

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.

Volume / Edition
5.3
Pagination
128-136
Published Date

December 1952

ISSN Number
0016-4003
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1952 Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005). “Cost of Living.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 5.3 (December 1952): 128-136. 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. Merril

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.

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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.

Author Note

(1928-2005)

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