"The Obsolete Man"
Romney Wordsworth is a Christian librarian in a totalitarian state that has decreed books and God as obsolete. This, of course, makes Wordsworth obsolete as well. He is brought before the Chancellor where, after a feisty exchange, he is sentenced to death. Wordsworth accepts his fate and is allowed to select the manner in which he will die. Wordsworth chooses to have a bomb planted in his room, but no one--not even the Chancellor--knows about it. The execution will be televised, as all executions are in the State.