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This is 'the objective working out of a theme...treated from a subjective standpoint, in a story called "Protect Me From My Friends"'.

Published by If 1963 published by Gold Star Publications; also published in Alien Worlds edited by Roger Elwood published by Paperback Library1964; also published in Out Of My Mind by John Brunner published by Ballantine1967; also published in Not Before Time by John Brunner published by Four Square Books 1968.