Backlash

By Winston K. Marks

Winston K. Marks was a popular sci-fi writer whose stories were featured in a number of magazines during the mid-20th century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Jan 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781518373961

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BACKLASH

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Winston K. Marks

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By WINSTON MARKS: Illustrated by SIBLEY

Backlash

By

Winston K. Marks

Backlash

Published by Chasma Press

New York City, NY

First published circa 1979

Copyright © Chasma Press, 2015

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BY WINSTON MARKS: ILLUSTRATED BY SIBLEY

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[TRANSCRIBER NOTE: THIS ETEXT WAS produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

They were the perfect servants—they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?

I still feel that the ingratiating little runts never intended any harm. They were eager to please, a cinch to transact business with, and constantly, everlastingly grateful to us for giving them asylum.

Yes, we gave the genuflecting little devils asylum. And we were glad to have them around at first—especially when they presented our women with a gift to surpass all gifts: a custom-built domestic servant.

In a civilization that had made such a fetish of personal liberty and dignity, you couldn’t hire a butler or an upstairs maid for less than love and money. And since love was pretty much rationed along the lines of monogamy, domestic service was almost a dead occupation. That is, until the Ollies came to our planet to stay.

Eventually I learned to despise