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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Credit | ||
| A basic unit of currency. |
This familiar currency unit, the "dollar" of the future, was Campbell's idea.
| Right enough, and tell me why I have to build that five-million credit flying laboratory. |
| From The Mightiest Machine,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1934 Additional resources -
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Compare to the more elaborate truffle skins from Philip K. Dick's 1965 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Also, take a look at the wide variety of alien currencies in the comments to this story on a New Space Currency.
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