I'm not a fan of nuke power as ye know ( #ThePriceOfTime) but once it's built, it might as well run its course while your country builds up its Renewables and desperately works out how to deal with the nuclear waste etc.
"I'll make you fill each unrelenting minute
with sixty seconds'-worth of graft and #grime.
I'll own your world, and everything that's in it -
and you'll forever pay #ThePriceOfTime"
(the evil #StanMills channels his inner Kipling)
#SciFiFri #faustian
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Books on a black velvet cloth, with the legend, "She came face to face with her guardian Devil. She defied him" "The Verity Player novels. Fear. Questions. And revenge."
The whole shifted as she stared at it; as if her eyes couldn’t make sense of it — couldn’t even focus on it. Like a badly-done special effect from the early days of film it looked there, but also — somehow — somewhere else.
#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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"Each year, like a wave..."
#ThePriceOfTime
Stephen Miller... Stan Mills... It's almost TOO obvious.
#StanMills #fear #ThePriceOfTime
This was literally #StanMills plan.
#ThePriceOfTime
Umm... yes, but not by #StanMills on the rack in the Dungeons museum, ta.
#ThePriceOfTime
“You didn’t reckon much to the #prospect of eternal life, did you? Turned it down flat when I offered you it.”
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.
#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
I wonder if FL have banned my life story #ThePriceOfTime #TheEveningLands #TheTwistedGrain...
“But you must wager something in return: something of your own, as I have staked my Plan.”
Silence fell as the words sunk in.
“I don’t understand. All...your plan. Isn’t that enough?”
“No, lass. I want summat out of this.”
#MartialMonday #SciFi #ThePriceOfTime
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Read: my life story #ThePriceOfTime #TheEvengLands
Watch: channel 4 News or Terminator 2
Listen to: Nightwish
They hadn’t gone #far when Verity’s curiosity got the better of her. What would a city at night look like if you could see everybody’s fears?
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime
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I wrote 'near-future' scifi i with a dystopian edge in 2017, and got overtaken by events! #ThePriceOfTime is still worth a read, mind, for the warnings.
Would Florida ban #ThePriceOfTime, I wonder? Or #TheEveningLands or #TheTwisredGrain?
Quite possibly.
#ThePriceOfTime is my biography!
Read my life story - there's high finance, a loving husband, and a guardian Devil!
#ThePriceOfTime
I note that my memoirs #ThePriceOfTime and #TheEveningLands aren't there.
The audience of students watched, transfixed. Would she sign?
She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now.
It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square.
It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain.
#satsplat #thepriceoftime
Had plenty of stretching, thanks. #StanMills chained me to the rack in #YorkDungeons! #ThePriceOfTime
Quite.
In #ThePriceOfTime, a character notices that the idea of "enough" sets you free!
Her heart nearly stopped at the sight of him. His angular shape like a black rip in the cheerful fabric of the room.
“You usually wait till the screen’s completely black before you turn to get up. Don’t you, hmm?”
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime #complete
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Read #ThePriceOfTime - it's far more entertaining!
But #inbetween the lines, the more sensitive & far-sighted among those Journal authors - even though bound, by their profession, to describe their findings in the most emotionless prose possible - have nevertheless committed a part of their innermost fears to their works
#BookishTues #ThePriceOfTime
Heavy waves of sleep rolled over her mind, compounding the effects of the wine.
She stared as the flames took hold.
“I can tell you’re feeling that all this has made your life worthwhile, hmm?”
“Yes. Yes I suppose I am.”
“So why are you crying?”
#Scififri #Compound #ThePriceOfTime
“That fear of yours: it’s not like the mundane fears. It’s hard to come by, pure fear with no #object. You only find it in a one who has no other fears.”
His voice softened.
“You feel it as being disorientated, lost; losing your path through Time. Don’t you, hmm?”
#vss365 #scififri #ThePriceOfTime
Someone's read my life story!
#ThePriceOfTime
Question to #nonfiction #readers on #booksky: I'm currently reading #ThePriceofTime by #EdwardChancellor, interesting insights at least for a layperson reader like myself. Recommendations for similar books would be welcome. Thanks #helmetlibraries for the copy.
This is literally #StanMills' Plan!
And so few understand #ThePriceOfTime
#StanMills made me an offer of ten thousand years of life.
What did I do?
#ThePriceOfTime
“You’ve only just woken up in time to ask the #question. So best be quick: sun sets in just over a minute.”
He smiled.
She suspected #foul play: at least, the nearest to it he could get away with.
#vss365 #martialmonday #ThePriceOfTime
