THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT by Robert A. Heinlein

When a statistician who is obsessed with cycles catches the surreal site of a young woman starting to remove her clothes at a bus stop, he takes immediate interest...not for obvious reasons, but because he’s just personally witnessed an aspect of one of the patterns he’s been tracking. Originally published in the March 1952 issue of Galaxy magazine, and re-published in the February 1962 issue of a Japanese magazine called SF, and far too many anthologies to entirely name, including: The End of the World in 1956, Nightmare Age in 1970, and A Shocking Thing in 1974. It also appeared in two collections of the author’s stories: The Menace from Earth in 1959, and Off the Main Sequence in 2005. Read by Darrell T. Smith II for my channel Quasar Spectra. Support me with a contribution: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?busine... Buy The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Green-Hills-Ea... Buy Nightmare Age (1970): https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=...