Project Gutenberg 2016-04-21 Public domain in the USA. 98 McCann, Edson Kossin, Sandy Kossin, Sanford Kossin Preferred Risk By Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey writing as Edson McCann. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Preferred Risk" by Edson McCann is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story is set in a future where a powerful insurance company exerts control over society, ensuring a risk-free existence at the cost of personal freedoms. The main character, Claims Adjuster Thomas Wills, navigates the complexities of this world while grappling with his own past and the enigmatic figure of a notorious fraudster, Luigi Zorchi, who seems to defy conventional limits of human endurance and injury. At the start of the novel, Wills arrives in Naples, filled with both anticipation and trepidation as he acclimates to his new role with the Company. He quickly finds himself embroiled in a chaotic situation at the train station where a desperate man dives in front of a train, provoking applause rather than horror from the crowd. Wills discovers that this man, Zorchi, has a history of self-inflicted injuries for insurance claims, raising questions about ethics, loyalty to the Company, and the human experience in a world that prizes safety above all else. The opening sets the tone for a narrative that promises suspense, ethical dilemmas, and an examination of societal norms shaped by corporate power. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Love stories Nuclear warfare -- Fiction Cryonics -- Fiction Insurance companies -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 373034 373043 2024-09-21T14:10:14.991070 2023-09-22T11:00:34.608872 text/html text/html 374652 2016-04-21T17:28:22 text/html; charset=us-ascii 1743647 2016-04-21T17:28:26 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 1912737 2024-09-21T14:10:20.548041 application/epub+zip 1919258 2024-09-21T14:10:15.825032 application/epub+zip 213700 2024-09-21T14:10:15.386068 application/epub+zip 2030667 2024-09-21T14:10:24.142012 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2017943 2024-09-21T14:10:20.117034 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315223 2022-09-23T15:34:39.825501 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356936 356841 2024-09-21T14:10:13.809065 2023-09-22T11:00:33.352851 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 356837 2016-04-21T17:28:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 137047 2016-04-21T17:28:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19929 2024-09-21T14:10:24.281986 application/rdf+xml 24297 2024-09-21T14:10:15.473042 image/jpeg 4334 2024-09-21T14:10:15.430042 image/jpeg 1746765 2024-09-21T14:10:15.115064 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Del Rey, Lester More titles under Pohl, Frederik