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Short Story

Pay for the Printer

1956

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About this story

Human survivors depend on aliens capable of duplicating the goods their ruined civilization once made. When the copies begin to fail, the community must confront what it has lost by forgetting how to create things itself.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Jan 28, 1954

    Composition: no later than Jan 28, 1954

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Jan 28, 1954

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Jan 28, 1954

  3. Oct 1956

    First published Oct 1956

    Satellite