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"Money to me is freedom, and freedom is essential. Money allows me to say that I will now devote my life to being me, rather than putting on my shoes and tie, and going to an office every day."
- Robert Silverberg
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| Agfom Potent-Shot | ||
| Special film allows user to take a picture of what happens in the next thirty minutes. |
Chuck, in the midst of a divorce, probably shouldn't go to Joan's apt. But he does.
| A bright light seared in to being, vanished; Chuck, blinded, peered and then saw, standing in the center of the room with a camera in his hands, a man he recognized. Recognized and disliked.
"Hello, Chuck," Bob Alfson said... "Get out of this apt," Chuck said. Moving toward the door, Alfson said, "Glad to. This film I'm using - I'm sure you've run across it at CIA; it's expensive, but helpful." He explained to both Chuck and Joan. "I've just taken an Agfom potent-shot. Does that strike a chord? What I have in this camera is not a record of what you did just now but what will go on here in the next half hour..." |
| Technovelgy from Clans of the Alphane Moon,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1964 Additional resources -
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This film is essentially the opposite of a scenedow, an artifact made of slow glass that shows what has happened in the recent past in a particular location.
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