The Good Work
Unknown
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Description
Theodore Thomas wrote The Good Work, a tale that ran in a science fiction magazine in February 1959. In the cities of its future, three hundred and fifty billions swarm like termites in a hill. Jeremiah Winthrop, tall and rawboned, still calls himself a man in that packed world, and the tale turns on what that claim costs.
Winthrop's dignity shows in every movement, bred from the rocky New England soil of his forebears. That soil now lies buried under the foundations of monstrous buildings. He rides a spiral escalator up to his two-part cubicle home on the one hundred and forty-eighth floor, swaying among tense, tight-pressed crowds. Thomas asks what work, faith, and selfhood can mean when mankind has no room left.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |