Spotlight on Lee Falk - Other writings - Time is Money
 from Playboy by Fred Fredericks | |
| Country: |  USA / English
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Plot
A future world, electronic advanse and with a paralell biological development, gave rise to mighty nation. The founding fathers, prudent merchants all, developed a society based on the motto "Time is Money". Each child was born with a Time account and all wages and prices were based on time units. And a Timebank, exact to the millisecond, kept track of each individual's time account.
Suddenly Tom discovers that his Time account only had a balance of 1 hr 14 min 27 sec.
Appearances
Time
Scene
- an office building, where Tom and Dick worked
- an office building, where Harry worked
- a bar, next to Harry's
- a motel
- a bar
Cast
- Tom (first-person)
- Dick, a merchant, friend of Tom
- a red-haired receptionist, where Harry worked
- Harry, a time lender, friend of Tom
- a bartender, in a bar next to Harry's
- Juliet, a girl with scarlet hair and emarald eyes in a motel bar
- a big man, in a motel bar
- a man with a hat, topcoat and briefcase, on the street
- a lady with a fyr jacket, on the street
- Lou, a young man with a gitar, on the street
- a young girl with long blond hair, on the street
- a man in working clothes, on the street
- an officer, on the street
Publications
Books
"Time is Money" was published in Lee Falk – Storyteller / Lee Falk - Berättaren, published in 2011 by "The Scandinavian Chapter of the Lee Falk Memorial Bengali Explorers Club".
Lee Falk
Berättaren
Magazines
"Time is Money" was published in Playboy (December 1975).
Playboy
December 1975
Playboy issue page 102
Playboy issue page 103
