Status Quo

Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if he wants to succeed: wear the right clothes, listen to the right music, even drink vodka martinis.

Then he stumbles across a conspiracy of Weirds plotting to overthow the entire existing social order. It's a race against time.

Can he stop their fiendish plan, and keep America safe for shallow judgements based on status symbols?

Status Quo was first published in Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1961.