
Publication date: | 1940.06 |
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Genre: | Science fiction short story |
Series: | Future History |
Preceded by: | Successful Operation |
Followed by: | Coventry |
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“The Roads Must Roll” is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in “Astounding Science‐Fiction” magazine June 1940.
In the late 1960s, it was awarded a retrospective “Nebula Award” by the “Science Fiction Writers of America” (SFWA) and published in “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964” anthology in 1970.
Exposition
Conveyor-belt-like roads moving up to a hundred miles per hour, the only way to keep the congested future moving. But now a strike is shutting it all down. But functionalists from the ranks of technicians who’s servicing the roads have a special view for their place in the society.