Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
Graham Donald
(12 Mar 2020 11:23 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
Graham Donald
(13 Mar 2020 01:03 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
Graham Donald
(14 Mar 2020 14:43 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
David Shaw
(14 Mar 2020 14:57 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Kelly St. Clair (14 Mar 2020 19:27 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
Phil Pugliese
(14 Mar 2020 19:45 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories
Graham Donald
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Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Kelly St. Clair 14 Mar 2020 19:27 UTC
> 2. Sanatoris Short-Cut (September 1948, P. 113) > > https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v18n01_1948-09_Gorgon776/page/n1/mode/2up I have to wonder, though: did gambling /ever/ actually work the way Vance describes it in this story? I get that 1948 is before closed-circuit TV and omnisurveillance, but I have to imagine that even then, if a customer tried to openly film or photograph a gaming machine in operation, or put an obvious physical mark on it to gauge the speed of rotation, casino security would be on him /instantly/ and he would be (at a minimum, and that's if it /wasn't/ just a front for organized crime) escorted off the premises. -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org