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Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

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Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

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The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/preferred-risk-frederik-pohl/11965396?ean=9781515403289

1955 novel about insurance companies taking over the world.

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