"For Sale, Reasonable"

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Title"For Sale, Reasonable"
Year for Search1959
AuthorsBorgese, Elizabeth Mann(1918-2002)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition 17.1 (98)
Pagination70-73
Date PublishedJuly 1959
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsCanadian author, Female author, German author
Annotation

Dystopia written as a job application by a human in an automated future.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 170-72 with an editor’s note on 169; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 321-24. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org; and as “To Whom It May Concern.” In her To Whom It May Concern (New York: George Braziller, 1960), 25-29. 
Holding Institutions

Can, MoU-St, Merril, PSt
Author Note

The female author (1918-2002), the daughter of Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was born in Germany and then worked in the U.S. and Canada, where she was a professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
Full Text

1959 Borgese, Elizabeth Mann (1918-2002). “For Sale, Reasonable.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 17.1 (98) (July 1959): 70-73. Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 170-72 with an editor’s note on 169; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 321-24. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org; and as “To Whom It May Concern.” In her To Whom It May Concern (New York: George Braziller, 1960), 25-29. Can, MoU-St, Merril, PSt

Dystopia written as a job application by a human in an automated future. The female author, the daughter of Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was born in Germany and then worked in the U.S. and Canada, where she was a professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.