Toy Shop

A 1962 science fiction short story by Harry Harrison in which two inventors, unable to interest anyone in their anti-gravity discovery, sell disguised toy rocketships to scientists and engineers, counting on a supposedly impossible effect to puzzle them into investigating it.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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SciFi, Fantasy, and Webnovels›Space and adventure science fiction›Future societies and satire›Advertising, media, and consumer life

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