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"There's a disease in our times. A cultural disease you might call the Great Gray Plague. It is a disease which premises that safety, security, and effectiveness in dealing with the world may be obtained by agreement with the highest existing Authority. "This premise was valid in the days when disobedience to the Head Man meant getting lost in a bog or eaten by a saber-toothed tiger. Today i is more than obsolete. It is among the most vicious sicknesses that ha ever infected any culture." "And you were sick with it." "I was sick with it. You remember I said a molecular program is chosen partly on the basis of data presented by parental sources and the spea of invasion from the external world. This data that came to me from bo sources said that I could deal with the world by yielding to Authority by surrounding myself with it as with a shell. It would protect me. I would have stature. My world-problems would be solved if I chose this pattern. "I chose it well. In our culture there are two areas of Authority, one in government, one in science. I covered myself both ways. . . ."

About the Author :
Raymond Fisher Jones (1915 - 1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel This Island Earth, which was adapted into the eponymous 1955 film. Most of Jones' short fiction was published during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories and Galaxy. His sixteen novels were published between 1951 and 1978. His short story "Rat Race," first published in the April 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, was nominated for a Hugo Award. In 1996, "Correspondence Course," first published in the April 1945 edition of Astounding Stories, was nominated for a Retro Hugo award for best short story. Another short story, "The Alien Machine," first published in the June 1949 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories, was later combined with two other short stories, "The Shroud of Secrecy" and "The Greater Conflict" and expanded into the novel This Island Earth, upon which the movie of the same name was based. Jones also wrote the story upon which a 1952 Tales of Tomorrow television program episode, titled "The Children's Room," was based. Jones short story, "Tools of the Trade," that appeared in the November 1950 issue of Astounding, was the first story dealing with 3D printing, although he called it "Molecular Spray" at the time.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781606645277
  • Publisher: Aegypan
  • Publisher Imprint: Aegypan
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1606645277
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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