Albert Teichner 38 min read

Wendell Hart drifted into the Savers' Conspiracy, an underground movement in a world that gathers old machines into public heaps and destroys them at the great Ritual Sacrifice each decade.

Albert Teichner's 1961 story is a sharp dystopian social-SF satire of a consumption economy. Clever, pointed golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a society is compelled to make and destroy junk as sacred ritual, and a quiet conspiracy of savers dares to resist the sacred waste.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

West