Sci-fi author Alan E. Nourse used his preternatural skill at creating engaging tales about the future to help pay his way through medical school. Many of his tales are concerned with themes such as medical ethics, emerging technologies, and the many ways that science can impact culture and society. Consignment is a tightly plotted short story that will please fans of golden-era science fiction.

The story is said in the most enthralling manner that it makes it very interesting as well as introspective. Even though it appears to be very literal but the crux of the matter is all about the inevitability of death. The prince thought that with his power and position he could defy the plague that caused death in his kingdom. But eventually even he is not spared because on the figurative level it is not a plague but death itself, that does not