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Breakaway
Leiber slyly imagines a near-future when giant machines not only harvest the wheat field, but grind flour and bake bread on the spot -- the ultimate in big farming. In this toasted tomorrow, the highly-mechanized Puffy Products is bent on producing the supremely lightest loaf. The story is what happens if bread isn't just airy, but pumped full of lighter-than-air helium. Leiber (Ships to the Stars) didn't often bake up such a souffle of spoof, but he's a master in the kitchen. And "Bread Overhead" has just enough to say about human nature to be filling, besides.
8 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2007
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September 25, 2018
In Librivox SSF Collection Vol 018. Romantic desires versus the vocational call to explore the wonders of the universe as a space pilot! No contest!
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