Frank M. Robinson 36 min read

Beneath a neon sign boasting that Personnel can supply the man for any job, a small, bespectacled man studies the brass nameplate, and asks his tall companion why the sign says seventy-five per cent.

Frank M. Robinson's 1955 story is a wry social-SF space opera. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story built around a future placement agency that fits every man to his perfect job, where the search for one very particular kind of man drives a witty, well-turned golden-age piece about work, sanity, and finding the right person.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry