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John Jones's Dollar

Harry Stephen Keeler

First published August 1915
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

The eponymous socialist invests one dollar, which eventually grows to become an incredible fortune used to found a Fabian Socialist society. Probably the first story of its kind.<br> Available on page 209, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1915 The Black Cat, August 1915 The Shortstory Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 45
April 1927 Amazing Stories, April 1927 Experimenter Publishing Company MAGAZINE 25
April 1956 Amazing Stories, April 1956 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 50
1958 Fantasia Mathematica Simon & Schuster Anthology 248
1961 Fantasia Mathematica Simon & Schuster Anthology 248
May 1997 Fantasia Mathematica Copernicus Anthology 248
October 2008 John Jones's Dollar Project Gutenberg Chapbook
July 2011 The Man Who Found Zero: Early Science Fiction and Weird Fantasy from The Black Cat, 1896–1915 Black Dog Books Anthology 155
2021 The Rivals of H. G. Wells, Vol. I (Short Stories and Novelettes) Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology 294