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Meeting of the Board is a satirical science fiction story by Alan E. Nourse about corporate power, labor control, management panic, and the future of industrial authority. At Robling Titanium Corporation, Walter Towne and the management team face an impossible new order: the workers have gained control of the company's stock, the old hierarchy has been overturned, and the people who once gave orders now find themselves answerable to the workforce. What begins as a business crisis becomes a sharp speculative comedy about power, class, fear, and the assumptions hidden inside corporate life.

Nourse uses the boardroom as a science-fiction laboratory, turning stock ownership and labor politics into a brisk story of reversal and consequence. The result is not space opera or alien adventure, but social science fiction in the classic magazine tradition: compact, ironic, and built around one destabilizing idea carried to its practical conclusion. For readers of Golden Age science fiction, vintage SF satire, corporate dystopia, labor fiction, and Alan E. Nourse's short speculative work, Meeting of the Board remains a clever mid-century tale of power changing hands. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.