wombat@uicsl.UUCP (03/23/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-11000:uicsl:10700090:000:403 uicsl!wombat Mar 23 11:06:00 1984 A friend of mine talked to Panshin at Chicon IV, where he was told that the book was finished and would be published "soon." Of course, that was a year and a half ago and the book hasn't appeared yet. It may be that Panshin wants to publish the book himself, under his Elephant Books imprint, and is waiting for a contract with Ace to run out or something. Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat
FIRTH%TARTAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (04/24/84)
Responses to recent Author Enquiries:
1. The story about the man who was telepathically in contact with
his past and future selves is
Now +n Now -n
by Robert Silverberg. My copy is in Nova 2, edited by Harry
Harrison.
2. The story about the man who invested enough money in the past
to pay for his trip back there is
Compounded Interest
by Mack Reynolds. My copy is in SF - the Best of the Best, ed
Judith Merrill, but the citation is (c) 1956 Fantasy House.
Most of us as schoolboys calculated the value of "Caesar's penny",
invested on his visit in 55 BC an some trivial rate of compound
interest. However, the seminal story is of course H G Wells'
When The Sleeper Wakes.
-------cwr%WHITE@sri-unix.UUCP (04/25/84)
From: Craig W. Reynolds <cwr at WHITE>
Date: Tue 24 Apr 84 19:04:07-EST
From: FIRTH%TARTAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA
Subject: Author Enquiries
... The story about the man who invested enough money in the past to
pay for his trip back there is "Compounded Interest" by Mack Reynolds.
Most of us as schoolboys calculated the value of "Caesar's penny",
invested on his visit in 55 BC an some trivial rate of compound
interest. However, the seminal story is of course H G Wells' When
The Sleeper Wakes.
Who is the author of "John Jones' Dollar"? This is basically the same
story (one US dollar invested at 3% (its an old story) held in a trust
for the his first decendant of the fiftieth generation). The story is
set during a history lecture (in a distributed, video linked class).
The twist is that the story is not about finances but rather the pol-
itical structure of their society and how it came about.
- Craig (no relation to Jack) Reynolds