In a future where a single insurance Company guarantees every citizen against every risk, the narrator, a loyal young claims adjuster, arrives in Naples eager to serve. What he finds there, amid the aftermath of nuclear war, a love affair and the Company’s freezing of the dangerously ill, forces him to ask how safe a risk-free world really is.
Winner of the Galaxy novel contest of 1955, written under a pseudonym by Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl. Download the free EPUB.