Re: Economic meltdowns in SF

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>A collapse is narrowly averted in one of Lyndon Hardy's "logical
>magic" books.  maybe _Master of the 5 Magics_.  There is some kind
>of unforgable currency which the bumbling protag suddenly renders
>forgable.  Fortunately he somehow also inadvertently manages to
>sink a huge cash store into a completely inaccessable location, and is a
>quick enough thinker to proclaim that those coins (or whatever) are
>still unforgable (they aren't), building a new economy on claims against
>this untestable reserve..

That would be Secret of the Sixth Magic, because the -reason- the currency
was unforgeable was that it was perfect discs created by a ritual of
Magic, and
the laws of Magic suddenly got changed, rendering the discs no longer
Perfect.

Dave
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