A Maldives honeymoon goes from sats on the beach to boating accident when Alison finally honours a pact to share her new husband's interest in the magic internet money, learning more than she'd bargained for.
First, the quiet came. Each day, the markets grew quieter, the people hungrier. A farmer stared at wilted crops, dread settling in his heart. In a kingdom once resplendent with markets and sky-reaching monuments, it was the first failed harvest that marked the end of affluence and the beginning of collapse.
A dog day afternoon. Not the movie, obviously, but the day that Max was living. The siren rang in his ears, and the car rocked and juddered along at more than 80km per hour...
In a dystopian future, a man caught between two worlds must help guide those on the fringes to a new digital utopia, while evading government agents and facing his own doubts about leaving behind his comfortable life.
The band of warriors relied on the incorruptible time chain and sympathetic resonance for secret communication...
For money to have meaning it needs to have a relationship to energy. The energy used to produce money becomes a physical representation of the time required to earn it. When money requires no energy to produce, it has no relationship to time.