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The K-Factor
Harry Harrison
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The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high ideals and others with very low ones indeed. So why hasn't war occurred in several centuries among the hundreds of planets? Has man really changed? Not on your life it hasn't! Read how science has given man peace but at what cost?
The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high ideals and others with very low ones indeed. So why hasn't war occurred in several centuries among the hundreds of planets? Has man really changed? Not on your life it hasn't! Read how science has given man peace but at what cost?
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"Even in its early, crude form, Societics provided a stopgap that would give them some breathing time. They saw to it that my work was well endowed and aided me—unofficially of course—in setting up the first control experiments on different planets. We had results, some very good, and the others not so bad that the local police couldn't get things back under control after a while. I was, of course, happy to perfect my theories in practice. After a hundred years I had all the rough spots evened down and we were in business. The UN has never come up with a workable alternative plan, so they have settled down to the uncomfortabl. . . Read More
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I feel like it would be more interesting if it wasn't such a short read. It hardly developed any of the world or characters in the story as much as "this thing happened here and now the next thing is happening."
Interesting and well written
Interesting ideas knit into a fascinating story. Fantastic developments growing organically from a seemingly plebian setup. It was very thought-provoking.
I really tried finishing it, but i couldn't. Too much talkin and noting else!
A short but good SF story that discusses controlling populations through semi-scientific means using a field theory & statistics. That's hitting a little too close to comfort if you read about how Big Data is not just mining, but controlling public perception. Scary stuff that's overshadowed by the
The K Factor is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1960 and published in the compilation 50 in 50 in 2001, as well as the more recent kindle compilation "The Harry Harrison Megapack: 11 Classics of Science Fiction". This is my first time reading one of Harry Harrison'