Title: The Freelancer
Title Record # 45872
Author: Robert Zacks
Date: 1955-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Robert Zacks
Date: 1955-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A man has a job that makes most people despise him: he collects royalties from patented phrases. You can patent a phrase like, "They were made for each other", and if someone happens to use the phrase in a conversation he is liable for a copyright fee. The protagonist carries a box which listens to conversations, and if it recognizes a copyrighted phrase it automatically bills a fee.
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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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| Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1955 | 1955-09-00 | ed. H. L. Gold | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | $0.35?$: US dollar |
148 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Emsh |  |
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| Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 33 | 1955-12-00 | ed. H. L. Gold | Strato Publications | 2/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Emsh | |
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| Galaxie (1ère série), #30 May 1956 | 1956-05-00 |
ed.
Editors of Galaxie (1ère série)?Editors of Galaxie (1ere serie) |
Editions Nuit et Jour | F100?F: French frank |
148 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
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| The Freelancer | 2016-01-20 | Robert Zacks | Project Gutenberg | 50980 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
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| The Science Fiction Crime Megapack | 2017-04-10 | ed. uncredited | Wildside Press | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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