E. Mittleman 12 min read

'I wouldn't take five cents off a legitimate man, but if they want to gamble, that's another story', a self-proclaimed genius explains his foolproof machine for cheating at cards.

E. Mittleman's 1960 story is a wry, clever hard-SF and social-SF tale of a card-sharp's gadget. Fun, ironic golden-age SF. Read it for a genial con-man's confession, where a cheat's ingenious device for rigging the game meets a twist that proves the non-electronic bug the deadliest of all.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Gray Morrow