Preferred Risk

First published	1955
Type	Novel

An insurance claims adjuster investigates mysterious events in a vault where incurably ill people are stored in cold sleep. From the back cover of the Del Rey edition: "The Company insured the whole world against everything and anything - but the premiums came high... The Company had brought peace and plenty to all on Earth - with comprehensive insurance against disease and disaster, war and want. Tom Wills gloried in his new rank of Claims Adjuster and relished his prospects of rising even higher. But then he met Rena, a enchanting young woman who turned out to be an Uninsurable - and involved in a conspiracy against the Company, to boot! To Wills, that is impossible, insane. Rena and her follow conspirators had to be deluded.. and it was clearly up to him to prove them wrong. The evidence he sought wasn't hard to find, so he began his investigation... and soon discovered that the real danger to the country, and the world, was the Company itself!"

"Winner of the Galaxy-Simon & Schuster contest for 1955's best work of science-fiction" according to the first edition.

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Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
1955	Preferred Risk	Simon & Schuster	Novel	1
June 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, June 1955	Galaxy Publishing Corporation	MAGAZINE	6
July 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1955	Galaxy Publishing Corporation	MAGAZINE	104
August 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1955	Galaxy Publishing Corporation	MAGAZINE	112
September 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1955	Galaxy Publishing Corporation	MAGAZINE	100
September 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 30	Strato Publications	MAGAZINE	4
October 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 31	Strato Publications	MAGAZINE	91
November 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 32	Strato Publications	MAGAZINE	98
December 1955	Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 33	Strato Publications	MAGAZINE	74
December 1955	Galaxie, Décembre 1955	Éditions Nuit et Jour	MAGAZINE	2
January 1956	Galaxie, Janvier 1956	Éditions Nuit et Jour	MAGAZINE	2
February 1956	Galaxie, Février 1956	Éditions Nuit et Jour	MAGAZINE	72
December 1958	Das große Wagnis	Semrau	Novel
October 1959	Galaxy, #17	Casa Editrice La Tribuna	MAGAZINE	2
November 1959	Galaxy, #18	Casa Editrice La Tribuna	MAGAZINE	76
December 1959	Galaxy, #19	Casa Editrice La Tribuna	MAGAZINE	82
January 1960	Galaxy, #20	Casa Editrice La Tribuna	MAGAZINE	76
March 1962	Preferred Risk	Dell	Novel	5
March 1962	Preferred Risk	Dell	Novel	5
October 1976	Rischio di vita	Fanucci Editore	Novel	29
January 1980	Preferred Risk	Del Rey / Ballantine	Novel	1
January 1980	Preferred Risk	Del Rey / Ballantine	Novel	1
March 1981	Der Wohlfahrtskonzern	Moewig	Novel	5
February 1983	Preferred Risk	Methuen	Novel	1
March 1989	Rischio di vita	Fanucci Editore	Novel	29
February 2009	Preferred Risk	Wonder Publishing Group	Novel
June 2014	Preferred Risk	Fiction Hunter Press	Novel
August 2014	The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack	Wildside Press	Anthology
February 2015	Preferred Risk	Wildside Press	Novel
December 2015	Frederik Pohl Super Pack	Positronic Publishing	Collection	\|1
January 2016	Frederik Pohl Super Pack	Positronic Publishing	Collection	\|1
January 2016	Preferred Risk	Positronic Publishing	Novel
February 2016	The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1	Positronic Publishing	Anthology	\|9
February 2016	The 32nd Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack	Wildside Press	Collection
March 2016	Frederik Pohl Super Pack	Start Publishing	Collection	\|1
March 2016	The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1	Start Publishing	Anthology	\|9
March 2016	Preferred Risk	Start Publishing	Novel
April 2016	Preferred Risk	Project Gutenberg	Novel
April 2016	The First Science Fiction Novel Megapack	Wildside Press	Omnibus
September 2016	Preferred Risk	Endymion Press	Novel
September 2016	A Twelvemonth and a Day / Preferred Risk	Armchair Fiction	Omnibus
January 2018	Preferred Risk	Ozymandias Press	Novel
April 2018	Frederik Pohl Super Pack	Positronic Publishing	Collection	\|1
December 2024	Frederik Pohl Audiobook Collection	MotionAudiobooks	Omnibus	\|37

Preferred Risk

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