Trivia Time
Dec. 12th, 2006 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidschrothSee if you can identify the under-appreciated SF novel the following came from:
Sweedack!
To all employees of Marmaduke Smith Metal Products, Inc.
The decision taken to commission the building and launching of an orbital factory for your company by Ground-to-Space Industries Inc. (contract noncancelable) was reached as a result of a warning from the chief accountant Mr. J. J. Himmelweis that the corporation faces certain bankruptcy.
At the same meeting of the Board which confirmed the placing of the G2S contract all officers were voted an additional 100 percent of their respective holdings of stock to dispose of at temporarily inflated prices prior to the company's voluntary liquidation which is scheduled for the end of next month.
Analysis of last year's federal budget shows that:
***17% of your tax dollar went on boondoggles
***13% .......................... propaganda, bribes and kickbacks
***11% .......................... federal contracts with companies which are (a) fronting for criminal activities and/or (b) partly or wholly owned by persons subject to indictment for federal offenses and/or (c) hazardous to health and the environment.
"It accounted with names, dates, places, photostats of canceled checks -- all the necessary evidence -- for half a million of the four million dollars of public money which by then had gone astray and never reached the refugees who were supposed to benefit."
"There was exactly one power base available to sustain the old style of government," Nick grunted. "Organized crime."
Bonus (rhetorical) question for publishing types - why isn't this novel in print?
Sweedack!
To all employees of Marmaduke Smith Metal Products, Inc.
The decision taken to commission the building and launching of an orbital factory for your company by Ground-to-Space Industries Inc. (contract noncancelable) was reached as a result of a warning from the chief accountant Mr. J. J. Himmelweis that the corporation faces certain bankruptcy.
At the same meeting of the Board which confirmed the placing of the G2S contract all officers were voted an additional 100 percent of their respective holdings of stock to dispose of at temporarily inflated prices prior to the company's voluntary liquidation which is scheduled for the end of next month.
Analysis of last year's federal budget shows that:
***17% of your tax dollar went on boondoggles
***13% .......................... propaganda, bribes and kickbacks
***11% .......................... federal contracts with companies which are (a) fronting for criminal activities and/or (b) partly or wholly owned by persons subject to indictment for federal offenses and/or (c) hazardous to health and the environment.
"It accounted with names, dates, places, photostats of canceled checks -- all the necessary evidence -- for half a million of the four million dollars of public money which by then had gone astray and never reached the refugees who were supposed to benefit."
"There was exactly one power base available to sustain the old style of government," Nick grunted. "Organized crime."
Bonus (rhetorical) question for publishing types - why isn't this novel in print?
