"The Wages of Death"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1958
ID: 1247
Publication history:
- 1958: Worlds of If August 1958, Magazine
- 1961: Science Fiction Adventures [UK] #20, May 1961, Magazine
- 1973: Valley Beyond Time, Dell Mass market paperback, 223 pp.
- 1974: Valley Beyond Time, Dell Mass market paperback, 223 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
A group of intellectual political malcontents hire a brutal mercenary to get them off a planet where their dissent means death. Along the way, they learn a few things about life in the real world and the consequences of their choices.