{"product_id":"2940014031486","title":"SECURITY","description":"In a world where Security is all-important, nothing\u003cbr\u003e            can ever be secure. A mountain-climbing vacation\u003cbr\u003e            may wind up in deep Space. Or loyalty may prove\u003cbr\u003e              to be high treason. But it has its rewards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt had been a tough day at the lab, one of those days when nothing seems\u003cbr\u003eable to go right. And, of course, it had been precisely the day Hammond,\u003cbr\u003ethe Efficiency inspector, would choose to stick his nose in. Another\u003cbr\u003emark in his little notebook--and enough marks like that meant a\u003cbr\u003ederating, and Control had a habit of sending derated labmen to Venus.\u003cbr\u003eThat wasn't a criminal punishment, but it amounted to the same thing.\u003cbr\u003eAllen Lancaster had no fear of it for himself; the sector chief of a\u003cbr\u003eProject was under direct Control jurisdiction rather than Efficiency,\u003cbr\u003eand Control was friendly to him. But he'd hate to see young Rogers get\u003cbr\u003eit--the boy had been married only a week now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo top the day off, a report had come to Lancaster's desk from Sector\u003cbr\u003eSeven of the Project. Security had finally cleared it for general\u003cbr\u003etransmission to sector chiefs--and it was the complete design of an\u003cbr\u003eelectronic valve on which some of the best men in Lancaster's own\u003cbr\u003edivision, Sector Thirteen, had been sweating for six months. There went\u003cbr\u003ehalf a year's work down the drain, all for nothing, and Lancaster would\u003cbr\u003ehave that much less to show at the next Project reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had cursed for several minutes straight, drawing the admiring glances\u003cbr\u003eof his assistants. It was safe enough for a high-ranking labman to gripe\u003cbr\u003eabout Security--in fact, it was more or less expected. Scientists had\u003cbr\u003etheir privileges.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079864598768,"sku":"2940014031486","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014031486_p0.jpg?v=1763599271","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014031486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}