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RISK

                                 June 29, 1993     

"Risk" is a very short story by          
Joanna Russ where a man                     SPOILERS
complains that the bright new
world of the future has killed
Man's spirit because it is too
safe: it leaves no element of
risk.  His judges listen to him,
and agree, and inject him with
the bubonic plauge.
                                    
I've always thought it would be nice
to pair this story with the chapter
"G in the Air" from Dashiel Hammett's     G_IN_THE_AIR
"The Maltese Falcon".
        
    (You could also compare it to
    Heinlein's "Coventry"...)    
                                 
        
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