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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Millenniaire | ||
| A person with much more Time than an ordinary person. |
Clever portmanteau of "millennium" and "millionaire".
| The young man smiles. ‘And are you genius enough to know who I am?’
‘You are Christian Unruh,’ Isidore says. ‘The millenniaire.’ Finding that out was not difficult, but it occupied him for the other half of the afternoon, going through public exomemories and comparing them to the co-memory the woman in white gave him. Unruh – if that is his name – is a private person even by Oubliette standards: apart from his youth, it is difficult to find out anything about his background. His name comes up mainly in the context of society events and business deals in newspapers. It is obvious that he has more Time than God. |
| Technovelgy from The Quantum Thief,
by Hannu Rajaniemi. Published by Tor in 2010 Additional resources -
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Compare to the cardioplate from 'Repent Harlequin' Said the Ticktockman (1965) by Harlan Ellison and the palm flower from Logan's Run (1967) by William Nolan (w/G.C. Johnson).
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