TY - STAND KW - Male author KW - US author AU - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) AB -

A society with an economic system based on gambling proves a match for a society intent on conquest and leads to the abolition of war.

BT - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) C5 -

Merril, MoU-St, PSt

C6 -

(1926-2001)

C7 - August 1955 DA - 08/1955 LA - eng N1 -

Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier, 1969), 93-116. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 105-31; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 128-45.

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A society with an economic system based on gambling proves a match for a society intent on conquest and leads to the abolition of war.

PY - 1955 SP - 72 EP - 92 T2 - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) TI - "Inside Straight" VL - 9.2 (51) SN - 00024-984X ER -