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    Status Quo
    Status Quo
    Status Quo
    Audiobook3 hours

    Status Quo

    Written by Dallas McCord Reynolds

    Narrated by Peter Eastman

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    Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if he wants to succeed: wear the right clothes, listen to the right music, even drink vodka martinis. Then he stumbles across a conspiracy of Weirds plotting to overthow the entire existing social order. It's a race against time. Can he stop their fiendish plan, and keep America safe for shallow judgements based on status symbols?Status Quo was nominated for the 1962 Hugo Award for short fiction. - Summary by Peter Eastman
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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      I'm as "weird" as they come. Enough said.

      [endnote: only the honest & truly curious will invest their time wisely; as it always has been and always will be]