Preferred Risk
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
PREFERRED RISK first appeared in 1955. It won the Galaxy Magazine / Simon & Schuster contest for 1955's best work of science fiction.
The Company, a powerful, efficient, and thoroughly monstrous insurance organization, controlled the entire world. It scientifically regulating every aspect of life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, has second thoughts when he meets beautiful Rena, whose radical father lies frozen in one of the Company's subterranean vaults...
Customer Reviews
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My title applies to the world of the novel as well as the writers. This collaboration shows the hands of two professionals who wrote for a living. Today we envision very sinister high tech companies that control the whole world. They envisioned a more practical world—one controlled by an insurance company. What a good read! An escape from our uninsured lives.