futures

[adelaidesean]

I went for a walk yesterday and stepped over a one cent coin. What are the odds of that, given they were withdrawn from circulation in 1992?



I want to say that when I checked the date it said 2007 (or even 2011) but that would be taking this headline entirely too literally.

Has money from the future ever appeared in a story? I mucked around with reincarnation, the velocity of money, and Feynman's time-travelling electron in "The End of the World Begins at Home", but not impossible coins. I'd love to see what someone has done with the idea.

Comments

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

"Early" in this case meaning early in my own horror reading. :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I think I have that here somewhere. Will look it up. Thanks!

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

It's been repubbed under several names, depending on country, etc.

It's rare that a anthology is so good I remember most of the stories almost 20 years later. But this one is fairly solid. If anything, Reploids is the clunker of the book, given it doesn't really fit well, more than that it is a bad story. But It could easily have been published today as a Waldrop pastiche. The GRRM novella just rocks. Dan Simmons "Metastasis" I also remember particularly vividly.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Is this the GRRM story about the werewolves: "The Skin Trade" or something like that?

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

That's the one! Not as earth-shaking of a treatment of werewolves as Fevre Dream was of vamps, but nonetheless a great read.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

It's the only story I remember out of that collection, so that says something. :-)