A for Anything by Damon Knight Publisher: Tor Books (December 1, 1989) ISBN-10: 0812543106 ISBN-13: 9780812543100 Paperback: 217 pages Item Weight: 4 ounces 4.1 x 6.85 inches In a near future USA an obscure inventor creates the Gizmo - a device which can duplicate anything, including itself. The social and economic implications of this machine are explored in a brilliant and terrifying extrapolation, first published in 1959. Damon Knight is an SFFWA Grandmaster. -------------------- A for Anything is a science fiction novel by American writer Damon Knight. The author postulates the discovery, in the near future, of the "Gismo", a device that can duplicate anything—even another Gismo. Since all material objects have become essentially free, the only commodity of value is human labor, and the author suggests that a slave economy would be the inevitable result. The novel first appeared in 1959 as The People Maker (Zenith Books), based on a story in the November 1957 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Knight subsequently revised the text, which was published by Berkley in 1961 as A for Anything. It is generally considered to be Knight's finest novel. Knight has said of this novel: "I chose the matter duplicator, because I thought other authors had handled it badly. Very Good condition - spine creases