Preferred Risk

TitlePreferred Risk
Year for Search1955
Authors[Pohl], [Frederik George] [Jr.](1919-2013], and [Knapp], [Leonard](1915-93)
Tertiary Authorsdel Rey, Lester [pseud.], and McCann, Edson [pseud.]
Date Published1955
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Insurance companies control the world.

Additional Publishers

Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 10.3 - 6 (June - September 1955): 6-54, 104-43, 112-43, 100-43. Rpt. as by Pohl and Lester del Rey. New York: Ballantine Books, 1980.

Pseudonym

Edson McCann [pseud.] and Lester del Rey [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

DLC

Author Note

Pohl (1919-2013). Knapp (1915-93), who used the name Lester del Rey, said that his complete name was Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes, but his entire Spanish background was invented. 

Full Text

1955 [Pohl, Jr., Frederik George (1919-2013) and Leonard Knapp (1915-93)]. Preferred Risk. By Edson McCann [pseud.]. New York: Simon & Schuster. Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 10.3 - 6 (June - September 1955): 6-54, 104-43, 112-43, 100-43. Rpt. as by Pohl and Lester del Rey. New York: Ballantine Books, 1980. Knapp, who used the name Lester del Rey said that his complete name was Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes, but his entire Spanish background was invented. DLC

Insurance companies control the world.