The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations by Biggle Jr. Lloyd

Author:Biggle Jr., Lloyd [Biggle Jr., Lloyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, sf, short stories, sci-fi, classic
ISBN: 9781434448415
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2012-07-21T14:00:00+00:00

“How do you intend to proceed?”

“We shall simply trade new articles for old articles. The inhabitants will satisfy their wants by trading with us, and without consumption the production and distribution phases cannot function. Chaos will result. For example, the principal mode of transportation employs a machine called an automobile. It is the end product of a very large industry, and in its operation it utilizes a fuel called gasoline, which is the end product of another large industry. We shall offer a substitute product, trading new for old. Our substitute will be vastly superior to the native machine, and it will extract its fuel directly from the atmosphere. This will eliminate the consumption of both automobiles and gasoline, and at one stroke we shall have demolished two vital industries.”

“Shrewd planning. How are the initial experiments progressing?”

“Satisfactorily. The natives possess an innate suspicion that I did not anticipate, but once that suspicion is allayed they succumb with gratifying rapidity.”

The Sector Commander coldly studied a monstrous globe of the planet Earth. “We’ll have to give the fleet ample notice, you know. There were complaints that we moved too quickly in the Hanolff conquest.”

“That was an entirely different type of operation,” General Vrooz said. “I cannot set a date, as yet, but the military will have more than sufficient notice.”

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