Double or Nothing

Two friends. One impossible machine. Fifty thousand boxes of cornflakes falling from the sky. Burt Lindstrom is a man of practical instincts trapped in Artie's orbit of grand schemes. Their latest invention an anti-gravity device meant to revolutionize transportation becomes something else entirely: a duplication engine that spawns cornflakes, kitchen bowls, and copies of itself in exponentially growing quantities. What begins as a scientific breakthrough descends into catastrophic chaos, and the two friends must somehow contain a machine that refuses to stop multiplying. Written in the early 1960s with sharp wit and satirical edge, this is science fiction as screwball comedy: a celebration of brilliant failure, the unpredictable consequences of ingenuity, and the particular disaster that unfolds when ambition meets a malfunctioning universe. The dialogue crackles; the situations escalate; the cornflakes keep coming.