Title: Susceptibility

Title: Susceptibility Title Record # 55227
Author: John D. MacDonald
Date: 1951-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: An inspector comes to a colony planet which hasn't been in touch for long time. The last inspector who visited the planet sent his resignation taped on the controls of his space ship which was sent to return on automatic drive. All colonists seem to live on countryside living simple life, and no one lives in automatic cities enjoying food made automatic machines and using product made by automatic machines.

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Year	Language	Title
1957^ⓘTranslated by uncredited	French	Le défaut de la cuirasse
1973^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch	French	Vulnérabilité^?Vulnerabilite

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1951	1951-01-00	ed. H. L. Gold	World Editions, Inc.		$0.25^?$: US dollar	164	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	John Bunch
Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction	1952-02-00	ed. H. L. Gold	Crown Publishers		$3.50^?$: US dollar	x+ 566	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Richard Arbib
Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction	1953-00-00	ed. H. L. Gold	Grayson & Grayson			vi+ 255	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Other Times, Other Worlds	1978-10-00	John D. MacDonald	Fawcett Gold Medal	0-449-14037-7	$1.95^?$: US dollar	287	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.	coll
Other Times, Other Worlds	1978-10-00	John D. MacDonald	Fawcett Gold Medal	0-449-14037-7	C$1.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	287	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.	coll
Other Times, Other Worlds	date unknown	John D. MacDonald	Fawcett Gold Medal	0-449-14037-7	$2.25^?$: US dollar	287	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.	coll

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