Waldo and Magic, Inc
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780450397301 (0450397300)
Publish date: December 1st 1986
Publisher: New English Library
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Speculative Fiction,
Short Stories
(Original Review, 1980-08-21)My chief objection to models which suggest we will be much better off with satellites beaming down power to the ground comes in several pieces:1. I have been told that solar flux in the bands used by solar cells is no more than twice as high in orbit as in, for instance,...
Waldo (1942) and Magic, Inc. (1940) are two (mostly) unrelated novellas that (mostly) wear their age well. The tenuous connection is that in both "magic is loose in the world" and there is talk of "laws" such as those of "sympathy," "contiguity" and "homeopathy" that rule magic, which is associated ...
Waldo, the world's greatest expert on building remote controlled manipulators, wants to know why things are malfunctioning. It seems to be a problem that happens at very small scales. So he takes his smallest manipulator, and uses that to build an even smaller manipulator. Then he uses that to build...
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