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Short Story

Foster, You're Dead!

1955

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About this story

A frightened schoolboy longs for the bomb shelter that would make his family as secure as their neighbors. His father's resistance places the family under pressure from a society where fear has become a powerful sales tool.

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Work history

  1. no later than Dec 31, 1953

    Composition: no later than Dec 31, 1953

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Dec 31, 1953

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Dec 31, 1953

  3. 1955

    First published 1955

    Star SF Stories 3 · Ballantine