The Iron Chancellor
- Form
- Novelette
- Year
- 1958
Publication history
- 1958: Galaxy May 1958, Magazine
- 1966: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1967: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1970: The Cube Root of Uncertainty, Macmillan Hard cover book
- 1970: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 1970 pp.
- 1971: The Cube Root of Uncertainty, Signet Mass market paperback, 239 pp.
- 1972: Beyond Control, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1974: Beyond Control, Dell Mass market paperback, 236 pp.
- 1975: Science Fiction Special #14, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 1979: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 149 pp.
- 1979: Signaux du silence, Casterman Mass market paperback, 242 pp., in French as Le chancelier de fer
- 1983: Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book, Crown Mass market paperback
- 1984: Machines That Kill, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1985: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Ace Mass market paperback, 180 pp.
- 1988: Hunger for Horror, DAW Mass market paperback
- 1989: Great SF Stories 20 (1958), DAW Mass market paperback
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, 347 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, 727 pp., in French as Le chancelier de Fer
Blurb
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Comments
I could swear this one was an episode of Outer Limits. The members of the Carmichael family are all overweight, and would like to thin down a bit, so Mr Carmichael splurges on the newest model robot cook. The roboservitor can be programmed for any kind of diet they want. Twenty pounds in three months? Put the numbers in, it'll figure out the meals to reach the goal. It may mean toast and coffee for breakfast, plain lettuce and tomato salad for lunch with a hard-boiled egg, and steak with peas and coffee for dinner. And there's no telling what it might do if you try to cheat.
On 27 January, 1973, the story was broadcast on the revived X Minus One radio show. Tapes or CDs might be available if you search.
Other resources
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