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The bitter pill / A. Bertram Chandler

In a future where citizens reaching the age of forty-five are offered state-sanctioned euthanasia, a shipping clerk is sent to a Martian penal colony for forced labour. There he must navigate the brutal Mars Corps and a dangerous web of political intrigue.
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