The Midas Plague

This novella originally appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1954. It has been anthologized in Spectrum 1 (1961) edited by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B (1973) edited by Ben Bova, The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction (1980) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, and collected in The Case Against Tomorrow (1957) and The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975).