Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Graham Donald (12 Mar 2020 11:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Graham Donald (13 Mar 2020 01:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Graham Donald (14 Mar 2020 14:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Kelly St. Clair (14 Mar 2020 19:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Phil Pugliese (14 Mar 2020 19:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] Traveller: Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph stories Graham Donald (13 Apr 2020 11:15 UTC)

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)
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> 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.

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