Leonard Rubin 43 min read

The Royalty Party stands for a great deal, and there's just as much it wants no part of. It begins with a man being loaded, sun-blind and weeping, into an ambulance.

Leonard Rubin's 1960 story opens on a strange near-future of motorskating admen and secretive factions, building a satirical social-SF tale. Wry, offbeat golden-age SF. Read it for an oddball story that skewers advertising, politics, and conformity in a future gone slightly mad.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

43 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood