Mindwebs: Available Data On The Worp Reaction & Gas Mask &

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Available Data On The Worp Reaction by Lion Miller

I've never heard of this one or the author but it seems to have been widely anthologized in its day. Mindwebs seems to have liked its tales of the mentally disadvantaged committing incomprehensible high tech; this is another example of such a story.


Gas Mask by James D. Houston

There's another story about a super traffic jam that ends with the authorities just giving up and paving over the trapped cars and their occupants. This is a different story; sorry about spoiling the end of the other one, whatever it was called. This is about a super traffic jam and the life style adjustments it forces on the participants.


The Show Must Go On by James Causey

Man, androids and theater never ends well and adding jealousy of various sorts, sanctioned violence and involuntary servitude into the mix doesn't seem to help any.

A detail that kind of jumped out at me is that when the third person is brought into the marriage

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by the way, anyone thinking of dabbling in poly might want to listen to this tale of 'what happens when people in such relationships do not fully discuss the situation' or maybe 'what happens when one of the members of a relationship is a murderously jealous person who cannot see his cunning plan, dependent as it is on the cooperation of someone who just said he hates the jealous person most of all, must end'

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is referred to as a "companionate marriage', a phrase I first encountered in that unfortunate Heinlein bio a couple of years back.