| ▲ | viraptor 10 hours ago | |
That's black mirror level content. | ||
| ▲ | Nition 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
"MORE" by Mark Osborne (1999) did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk | ||
| ▲ | mkturkcan 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
One of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth books features this as a whole chapter, the first of the Cugel books I believe. I don’t know of an earlier appearance of the concept. | ||