Sez Maureen of the Maria Lectrix podcast:
Hail to the Chief is a near future piece of political science fiction, which seems a fitting choice now that the presidential race is heating up. The concept:
What if the best choice for an elected office were someone too boring for the voters to elect?
Garrett’s style in this story seems to me to have been inspired by Allan Drury’s political thrillers, at least in its careful refusal to name parties. (A very shrewd move by Drury and Garrett, as it enables anyone to enjoy and profit by their stories, and removes the authorial temptation to get partisan.)
This story was first published in the February 1962 issue of Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction under Randall Garrett’s “SAM AND JANET ARGO” pseudonym.
Hail To The Chief
By Randall Garrett; Read by Maureen O’Brien
4 MP3s – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: September 2008
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3| Part 4 |MP3|
What if the best choice for an elected office were someone too boring for the voters to elect?
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Posted by Jesse Willis