Amelia Wein’s Reviews > I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories > Status Update

I finished the first story in the collection, Installment Plan, but the only interesting thing about it was the view into 1950s American mentality. The. A travelling salesman with a team of robots goes to an alien planet to trade with the people there, and he won't take no for an answer. It is absurd and unethical by today's standards, but apparently in 1950 you could write a non-ironic story like that.