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    ...Or Your Money Back

    By Randall Garrett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ...Or Your Money Back
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    Randall Garrett

    Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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      ...Or Your Money Back - Randall Garrett

      Project Gutenberg's ...Or Your Money Back, by Gordon Randall Garrett

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: ...Or Your Money Back

      Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

      Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23534]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ...OR YOUR MONEY BACK ***

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      ... OR YOUR MONEY BACK

      BY DAVID GORDON

      Illustrated by Summers

      [Transcriber note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, September 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      There are lots of things that are considered perfectly acceptable ... provided they don't work. And of course everyone knows they really don't, which is why they're acceptable....

      There are times when I don't know my own strength. Or, at least, the strength of my advice. And the case of Jason Howley was certainly an instance of one of those times.

      When he came to my office with his gadget, I heard him out, trying to appear both interested and co-operative—which is good business. But I am forced to admit that neither Howley nor his gadget were very impressive. He was a lean, slope-shouldered individual, five-feet-eight or nine—which was shorter than he looked—with straight brown hair combed straight back and blue eyes which were shielded with steel-rimmed glasses. The thick, double-concave lenses indicated a degree of myopia that must have bordered on total blindness without glasses, and acute tunnel vision, even with them.

      He had a crisp, incisive manner that indicated he was either a man who knew what he was doing or a man who was trying to impress me with a ready-made story. I listened to him and looked at his gadget without giving any more indication than necessary of what I really thought.

      When he was through, I said: You understand, Mr. Howley that I'm not a patent lawyer; I specialize in criminal law. Now, I can recommend—

      But he cut me off. I understand that, counselor, he said sharply. Believe me, I have no illusion whatever that this thing is patentable under the present patent system. Even if it were, this gadget is designed to do something that may or may not be illegal, which would make it hazardous to attempt to patent it, I should think. You don't patent new devices for blowing safes or new drugs for doping horses, do you?

      Probably not, I said dryly, although, as I say, I'm not qualified to give an opinion on patent law. You say that gadget is designed to cause minute, but significant, changes in the velocities of small, moving objects. Just how does that make it illegal?

      He frowned a little. Well, possibly it wouldn't, except here in Nevada. Specifically, it is designed to influence roulette and dice games.

      I looked at the gadget with a little more interest this time. There

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