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Subject: Re: (tears) The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 22:29:34 -0400
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On 5/11/2025 3:08 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> James Nicoll wrote:
>> The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/west-of-java
>>
> 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.