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    Joy Ride
    Joy Ride
    Joy Ride
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    Joy Ride

    By Dick Francis and Mark Meadows

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Joy Ride - Dick Francis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Joy Ride, by Mark Meadows

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Joy Ride

      Author: Mark Meadows

      Illustrator: Dick Francis

      Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31961]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOY RIDE ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      joy ride

      By MARK MEADOWS

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      Men or machines—something had to give—though not necessarily one or the other. Why not both?

      (historian's note: The following statements are extracted from depositions taken by the Commission of Formal Inquiry appointed by the Peloric Rehabilitation Council, a body formed as a provisional government in the third month of the Calamity.)

      1

      y name is Andrews, third assistant vice president in charge of maintenance for Cybernetic Publishers.

      It is not generally known that all the periodical publications for the world were put out by Cybernetics. We did not conceal the monopoly deliberately, but we found that using the names of other publishing houses helped to give our magazines an impression of variety. Of course, we didn't want too much variety, either; only the tried and tested kind.

      Cybernetics gained its

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