Re: (tears) The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois

On 5/11/2025 3:08 PM, William Hyde wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois
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How did Professor William Waterman Sherman, late of San Francisco,
end up floating in the North Atlantic on a raft composed of the
wreckage of a flotilla of balloons?
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/west-of-java
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The first novel to feature the supply-and price relationship that I read was Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer", in which a huge gold strike had reduced the price of the metal to the point that gold reserves became

 > essentially worthless.
Jules Verne's _La chasse au météore_ (_The Chase of the Golden Meteor_/_The Meteor Hunt_/etc) explored this issue half a century earlier. It wasn't one of Verne's better novels -- although I haven't read the latest and greatest translation (https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9780803296343/the-meteor-hunt/) which expunged his son's additions and restored Jule Verne's original text -- but it was of some interest.