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Title: The Category Inventors Title Record # 750789
Author: Arthur Sellings
Date: 1956-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: Robots have taken over all jobs. A man has lost his job and is at home feeling anxious since he thinks it won't be possible to find a new one. There is a government stipend, which is enough to live on, but it's less than a salary. However, if you invent a new job, you'll get an office and a salary from the government. So, you just have to find a new useful occupation. But who defines what is useful?
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1956 1956-02-00 ed. H. L. Gold Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.35?$: US dollar
148
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".
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Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 37 1956-04-00 ed. H. L. Gold Strato Publications  
2/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
132
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".
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