barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (02/20/85)
There's a story by R. A. Lafferty about an investor who has to choose between investing in trolleys or gasoline-powered cars. I suspect that's what you're looking for. (I don't remember the title.) --Lee Gold
donn@utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (02/27/85)
Since no one else seems to have the precise citation, the R. A. Lafferty story is 'Interurban Queen', which originally appeared in ORBIT 8 back in 1970 and was recently collected in RINGING CHANGES. I think it's a fun story but not as fun as some of the others in CHANGES such as 'Days of Grass, Days of Straw', 'Among the Hairy Earthmen' and 'The Doggone Highly Scientific Door'. The first two, especially, are classics... Lafferty is one of those writers (like Avram Davidson) whose style can't be mistaken for anyone else's, and whom readers seem to strongly admire or violently detest (count me in the former camp). Enjoy, Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa 40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn