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Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays

Frederik Pohl

First published August 1984
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Technologically enhanced, long distance alien mind control allows distant planets to negotiate with Earth about minerals through humans. It's hard to be one of these humans. It's very hard to connect to other humans between sessions.

Related to "We purchased people".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1984 Cover Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1984 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 28
September 1985 Cover Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 25. Folge Heyne Anthology 68
November 1986 Cover Tales from the Planet Earth St. Martin's Press Anthology 1
November 1987 Cover Tales from the Planet Earth St. Martin's Press Anthology 1
1992 Cover Isaac Asimov Magazine, #23 Record MAGAZINE 112
December 2024 Cover Frederik Pohl Audiobook Collection MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |144
December 2024 Cover Frederik Pohl Audiobook Collection MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |167