The Martian colony has become independent, however Earth still needs it to launch the future spatial programs. A campaign of subsersive musical messages is led to convince the settlers to agree to this arangements. The key song is la Marseillese.
FEGHOOT AND THE COURTS
An alien race adopts the American legal system. Some language misunderstandings lead to the most curious system of punishments.
FAULT INTOLERANT
Abram Ivanov, a prolific writer, acquires a new word processor, which learns gradually to proof read all the stories, up to the point where it actually becomes capable of writing literature by itself.
KID BROTHER
When a family is refused the application to have a second child, they acquire a robot to act as a brother to their rather violent lonely child, Charlie. In time, the mother becomes very much attached to the kid robot, while the father constantly disproves of having it in their family. When an accident happens and a fire starts in the family home, the mother is forced to choose which child to save
THE NATIONS IN SPACE
Technicians belonging to rival families are forced to work together. When one of them discovers a mistake that his rivals have done, he is tempted to let it pass unnoticed so that the other family become discredited. However, this can have a very serious impact on all human life.
SMILE OF THE CHIPPER
In the future some men have been chipped so that they can perform high financial operations. A bussiness man who has profited from the help of such people explains how important it is for chippers to deny their emotions in order to perform their job right.
GOLD
Jonas Willard is a director who has produced a very successful compudrama of Shakespeare's King Lear. He is approached by a mediocre writerwho offers him a large sum in gold to produce a compudrama of one of his novels.
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