From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 1:23:24 AM UTC-8, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > This is from "The World Of Ptavvs", Lucas Garner speaking.   
   >   
   > "Chick Watson got to be my boss by spotting an invention that would have   
   > forced us to make murder legal."   
   >   
   > Was there ever any hint what this was supposed to have been?   
   > Or can anybody think of anything?   
      
     A replicator- a transfer booth that didn't "destroy the original" when it   
   made a distant copy.   
      
     "Leftovers" by Matthew Joseph Harrington, in Man-Kzin Wars XIV. Obviously   
   written after the first mention in "World of Ptavvs".   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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