"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.

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.

Other resources:

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