Every morning Larry’s robonurse hands him his unworry capsule, until the day it simply waits at the foot of his bed. It is his birthday, and the time has come to choose: return to a lifetime of chemical calm or step out into the dirty, crowded, hypertense world that nine out of ten people reject.
A sharp early story from a future Grand Master of science fiction, first printed in Infinity in 1957. Download the free EPUB.