Title: Preferred Risk
Title Record # 11456
Authors: Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl
Date: 1955-00-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Authors: Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl
Date: 1955-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: io9.gizmodo.com
Language: English
Note: "Winner of the Galaxy-Simon & Schuster contest for 1955's best work of science-fiction" according to the first edition.
Synopsis: An insurance claims adjuster investigates mysterious events in a vault where incurably ill people are stored in cold sleep.
From the back cover of the Del Rey edition: "The Company insured the whole world against everything and anything - but the premiums came high... The Company had brought peace and plenty to all on Earth - with comprehensive insurance against disease and disaster, war and want.
Tom Wills gloried in his new rank of Claims Adjuster and relished his prospects of rising even higher. But then he met Rena, a enchanting young woman who turned out to be an Uninsurable - and involved in a conspiracy against the Company, to boot!
To Wills, that is impossible, insane. Rena and her follow conspirators had to be deluded.. and it was clearly up to him to prove them wrong. The evidence he sought wasn't hard to find, so he began his investigation... and soon discovered that the real danger to the country, and the world, was the Company itself!"
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Preferred Risk | 1980-01-00 | Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-28575-1 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
187 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Chris Barbieri | |
Preferred Risk | 1980-01-00 | Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-28575-1 | C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
187 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Chris Barbieri | |
Preferred Risk | 1983-02-00 | Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl | Methuen | 0-417-07490-5 | £1.75?£: UK pound |
187 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Chris Moore | |
The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack | 2014-08-00 | ed. uncredited | Wildside Press (Megapack) | 978-1-4794-0345-5 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
Preferred Risk | 2015-02-11 | Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl | Wildside Press | 978-1-4794-0914-3 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Kirberger | ||
Frederik Pohl Super Pack | 2015-12-20 | Frederik Pohl | Positronic Publishing | 978-1-5154-0329-6 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
322 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Catmando | |
Frederik Pohl Super Pack | 2016-01-04 | Frederik Pohl | Positronic Publishing | 978-1-5154-0289-3 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Catmando | ||
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 | 2016-02-05 | ed. uncredited | Positronic Publishing | 978-1-5154-0363-0 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Atelier Sommerland | ||
The 32nd Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack | 2016-02-25 | Frederik Pohl | Wildside Press | 978-1-4794-2033-9 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Edward Valigursky | ||
Frederik Pohl Super Pack | 2016-03-03 | Frederik Pohl | Start Publishing | 978-1-68146-515-9 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Les Bossinas | ||
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 | 2016-03-10 | ed. uncredited | Start Publishing | 978-1-68299-956-1 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Yumikrum | ||
The First Science Fiction Novel Megapack | 2016-04-30 | uncredited | Wildside Press (Megapack) | 978-1-4794-2163-3 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
omni | |||
A Twelvemonth and a Day / Preferred Risk | 2016-09-24 | uncredited | Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #182) | 978-1-61287-329-9 / D-182 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
248 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | Ed Emshwiller | |
Frederik Pohl Super Pack | 2018-04-03 | Frederik Pohl | Positronic Publishing | 978-1-5154-2187-0 | $24.99?$: US dollar |
322 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Catmando |
Reviews
- Review by Damon Knight (1955) in Science Fiction Stories, July 1956, (1956)
- Review by Anthony Boucher (1956) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1956
- Review by Hans Stefan Santesson (1956) in Fantastic Universe, February 1956
- Review by Floyd C. Gale (1956) in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1956
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1956) in Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956
- Review by Villiers Gerson (1956) in Amazing Stories, July 1956 , reprinted in:
- Amazing Stories, July 1956 (2013)
- Review by Graham Andrews (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 6, Number 6