In Free Park, a reserve where every law but one has been abolished and order is kept only by a handful of stunner-armed flying robots, a visitor knocks the robots out. The crowd's sudden, real experiment in anarchy turns ugly fast, testing what people actually do when no one at all is enforcing anything.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Known Space
- contained in 2020 Visionanthology
- contained in Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collectionanthology
- contained in N-Spacecollection
- contained in Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Nivencollection
- contained in The Best of Larry Nivencollection
- contained in Three Books of Known Spaceomnibus
- contained in Tin Starsanthology
- contained in TV: 2000anthology