Platinum Pohl - The Collected Best Stories by Frederik Pohl

Author:Frederik Pohl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE

One can’t read much of Frederik Pohl’s work without realizing that this is a writer who knows about politics. In most of his stories, however, the politics are part of the background.

“Servant of the People” is quite straightforwardly about politics. Its protagonist is Congressman Fiorello Delano Fitzgerald O’Hare (don’t you love that name?), a politician who has been around for many years.

This story, which was a finalist for the Hugo Award when published in 1983, catches O’Hare in the toughest campaign of his career. This is set in the future, when robots have become more than mere machines—they have voting rights.

O’Hare is getting older and is faced with an opponent who has come up through the ranks, who has a strong base of support. O’Hare is fighting for his political life.

It’s a hell of a campaign, and a story not many authors could bring off as Frederik Pohl manages.

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