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Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
Amazing work won the Hugo Award for best novella for its year (1968). A rambling diatribe that takes place in a not-so-distant future in which all citizens receive a free salary - the purple wage without the need to work. (The title is a take-off on Zane Grey's well known Western novel Riders of the Purple Sage.) Select an invention:
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