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Joy Ride - Dick Francis
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Title: Joy Ride
Author: Mark Meadows
Illustrator: Dick Francis
Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31961]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
joy ride
By MARK MEADOWS
Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS
Men or machines—something had to give—though not necessarily one or the other. Why not both?
(historian's note: The following statements are extracted from depositions taken by the Commission of Formal Inquiry appointed by the Peloric Rehabilitation Council, a body formed as a provisional government in the third month of the Calamity.)
1
y name is Andrews, third assistant vice president in charge of maintenance for Cybernetic Publishers.
It is not generally known that all the periodical publications for the world were put out by Cybernetics. We did not conceal the monopoly deliberately, but we found that using the names of other publishing houses helped to give our magazines an impression of variety. Of course, we didn't want too much variety, either; only the tried and tested kind.
Cybernetics gained its