Thomas Wills is a claims adjuster. That doesn't sound like much, but the insurance company he works for rules the world with an Iron fist. Thomas Wills believes he is working for the greatest company in the history of mankind. But when he meets Rena dell'Angela he learns that everything is not as it seems. His company enforces complete compilation to their rules with a deep freeze vault that anyone who violates their rules is imprisoned in. Once he learns the truth he must decide what to do about it.
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Frederik Pohl was one of the major figures of twentieth-century American science fiction: a writer, editor, agent, anthologist, and critic whose career helped shape the field from the magazine era through the modern period. Born in 1919, Pohl was closely associated with the Futurians and with the development of socially aware, idea-driven science fiction. His later novels, including The Space Merchants, Man Plus, and Gateway, made him especially known for fiction that examined commerce, advertising, bureaucracy, technology, and the systems that shape human choice. His work often treated the future not as distant machinery but as an extension of existing social and economic pressures.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Preferred Risk is a sharp mid-century science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey, writing together as Edson McCann. First published in 1955, the novel imagines a world dominated by a vast insurance corporation whose calculations of danger, health, war, reproduction, and social order have become the hidden machinery of civilisation. What begins as corporate risk management has hardened into a system of control, where the language of safety conceals power, coercion, and the quiet management of human life. Project Gutenberg identifies the work as by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey writing as Edson McCann, and notes its original magazine serialisation in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1955. The result is both classic science fiction and pointed social satire: a novel about bureaucracy, medicine, fear, corporate authority, nuclear anxiety, and the uneasy bargain between security and freedom. Pohl's gift for institutional critique and del Rey's strong narrative drive make Preferred Risk a strong fit for readers of Golden Age science fiction, dystopian fiction, corporate dystopia, Cold War speculative fiction, and rediscovered magazine-era SF. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781515403289
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