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THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
Copyright © 1960 by Robert Sheckley
First appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, published by Ziff-Davis.
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All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
An ACE Book
Cover art by David Bergen
First Ace printing: November 1979
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