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The Roads Must Roll
Robert A. Heinlein as Robert Hajnlajn · 1940novelette
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Set in a future where the automobile has been replaced by The Roads, a gigantic set of parallel conveyor belts. The belts run at different speeds allowing a pedestrian to enter the Road at slow speed, and make his way to the center, where speeds are in excess of 100 MPH. Follows the exploits of Gaines, the Transport Commissioner, as he tries to put down a strike by the Rolling Roads Guild.
Source · ISFDB CC BY 4.0
Placement
- Future History
- contained in A Robert Heinlein Omnibusomnibus
- contained in The Best of Robert Heinleincollection
- contained in The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume Icollection
- contained in The Man Who Sold the Mooncollection
- contained in The Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Skyomnibus
- contained in The Past Through Tomorrowcollection
- contained in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Oneanthology
- contained in The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1anthology
- contained in Tomorrow X 4anthology