sdlotu
3/10/2023
This is a story of how a young denizen of a moribund planet society uses the people's dream of riches to movtivate them to other, higher apsirations.
By playing on the desperation, fantasy and wild hopes of a large number of fellow citizens, the protagonist begins a process of reinvigrating the society which had fallen into despair and idleness.
The MacGuffin here is a supercomputer which supposedly will make the moribund planet society into a galactic powerhouse. The search becomes the goal, and the MacGuffin proves the point the protagonist was hoping to make.
Nicely paced and plotted, though many of the charactes are strangely naive and trusting, even when events make it clear that some subterfuge is underway.