Consies

Sexual hostility unleashed by the dissociation of your personality into 'Groby'-Courtenay identified your wife with a hate-and-fear object, the Consies.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Almost every issue had good news in it for us-the same news that these Consies tut-tutted over.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Workmen don't automatically find the job they do best; Entrepreneurs don't play a hard, fair game by the rules; The Consies are sane, intelligent, and well organized.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

I made the casual gestures that, by their order and timing, constitute the Grand Hailing Sign of Distress of the Consies.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Yet-this was New York, and Bo wen had spoken of it as though the Consies I'd meet here were pretty high up in the scale, the Trotskys and Tom Paines of the movement.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

All were Consies, I was reasonably sure-else why would I be here?

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

I seemed to recall that denouncers of Consies were sometimes brainburned on the sensible grounds that they had been exposed to the virus and that it might work out later, after the first healthy reaction.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Could the Consies, in their depraved, illogical minds, have decided that space travel was antisurvival, or whatever you call it?

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

The Consies wouldn't have accepted anybody that unstable if they were down to three members with one sinking fast.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

Riskier but more heroic: I could bore from within, playing along with the Consies.

The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952