Midas World
| Title | Midas World |
| Year for Search | 1983 |
| Authors | Pohl, Frederik [George] [Jr.](1919-2013) |
| Date Published | 1983 |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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 The only previously unpublished story, "The Fire-Bringer" (1-4), serves as an introduction This is followed by 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague" (5-74).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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1919-2013) |
| Full Text | 1983 Pohl, [Jr.], Frederik [George] (1919-2013). Midas World. 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 The only previously unpublished story, “The Fire-Bringer” (1-4), serves as an introduction This is followed by 1954 Pohl, “The Midas Plague” (5-74).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. |
