"The Old Man"
| Title | "The Old Man" |
| Year for Search | 1962 |
| Authors | Slesar, Henry(1927-2002) |
| Secondary Title | The Diner’s Club Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | 1 |
| Date Published | 1962 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | “The Old Man” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52. |
| Info Notes | No issue of the original magazine publications can be located. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1927-2002) |
| Full Text | 1962 Slesar, Henry (1927-2002), “The Old Man.” The Diner’s Club Magazine 1 (1962) [Not found]. Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52. PSt “The Old Man” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer. |
