The Power of X — Arthur Sellings

The year is 2018. The place is London, where a renamed Buckingham Palace is now the home of the European Federation of states. An outstanding feature of life in London in 2018 is Plying - a recently discovered methods for producing duplicates that are absolutely indistinguishable from the originals. For a variety of reason, mainly the stagger expense, Plying is limited to valuable works of art, intricated industrial mechanisms, et. And the process is a highly graded government monopoly. Then a young dealer named Max Afford discovers that he can tell an original by touching it! Bowled over by his unique gift, but unable to profit by it, Max first decides to forget the whole thing. But a shocking incident forces him tin action - action that lands him in the middles of a plot to break into Europa Palace in the hope of saving this Plied society...