Project Gutenberg 2013-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 92 Sharkey, Jack 1931 1992 Sharkey, John Michael Double or Nothing Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Double or Nothing" by Jack Sharkey is a science fiction short story presented in the format of an imaginative narrative written in the early 1960s. The story explores themes of invention and unintended consequences, following the misadventures of two friends, Burt and Artie. As they attempt to create groundbreaking machines, their efforts often lead to chaotic situations, particularly when an anti-gravity device spirals out of control, generating increasingly absurd and troublesome results. In the story, Burt Lindstrom serves as the more practical half of the duo, continually caught in Artie's grand schemes. Their latest invention—a machine purported to create anti-gravity—unintentionally produces a synthesizer that conjures cornflakes, bowls, and other kitchen items in copious quantities, leading to overwhelming chaos as these items rain down around them. As the malfunctioning device continues to create duplicates of itself and other objects, the situation escalates into a humorous and catastrophic crisis that escalates beyond their control. The narrative is punctuated with witty dialogue and satire, using the premise of science to reflect on the unpredictability of human creativity and ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43041/43041-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Inventors -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 73752 73761 2024-09-18T06:29:33.154577 2023-09-18T14:43:44.357498 text/html text/html 70635 2013-06-26T14:01:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 247820 2013-06-26T14:01:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 264593 2024-09-18T06:29:35.430582 application/epub+zip 263650 2024-09-18T06:29:33.707591 application/epub+zip 86706 2024-09-18T06:29:33.435584 application/epub+zip 305999 2024-09-18T06:29:36.875572 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 297699 2024-09-18T06:29:35.167562 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121008 2022-09-19T16:08:07.674843 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 65189 65094 2024-09-18T06:29:32.943585 2023-09-18T14:43:44.177502 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 65023 2013-06-26T14:01:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 26076 2013-06-26T14:01:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 65014 2013-06-26T14:01:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26060 2013-06-26T14:01:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20785 2024-09-18T06:29:37.006552 application/rdf+xml 35480 2024-09-18T06:29:33.507573 image/jpeg 5399 2024-09-18T06:29:33.472578 image/jpeg 248955 2024-09-18T06:29:33.167592 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia