Preferred Risk
by Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl
Cover artist: Richard Powers
Publisher: Dell
Pub year: 1962
Cover price: 40¢
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by Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl
Cover artist: Richard Powers
Publisher: Dell
Pub year: 1962
Cover price: 40¢
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Winner of the Galaxy-Simon & Schuster Science-Fiction Contest
"Fast ... wry ... ingenious. Zips along the broad highway charted by George Orwell in 1984"
— Time Magazine
The company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex ... all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault
An extraordinary, prophetic novel of the world of tomorrow from an ingenious mind of today.
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It was all a matter of viewpoint
"To me, the clinics were emblems of the Company's concern for the world. In any imaginable disaster — even if some fantastic plague struck the entire race at once — the affected population could be neatly and effectively preserved until medicine could catch up with their cures.
"To Rena, they were prisons big enough to hold the race.
"It was time to find out which of us was right."