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“Amazing Stories,” September, 1957. Cover art by Ed Valigursky for “The Penal Cluster” by Ivar Jorgensen. (aka Randall Garrett)

The Universe, Their Prison.

 

“Tomorrow’s technocracy will produce more and more things for better living. It will also produce other things; among them, criminals too despicable to live on this earth. Too abominable to breathe our free air.” [Prologue]

 

A synopsis for a 2015 paperback edition of this story is available at Amazon, www.amazon.com/Penal-Cluster-Ivar-Jorgensen/dp/B00UXBT1W4

 

An eBook is available for reading online at Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/25061/25061-h/25061-h.htm

 

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