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What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please?

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  What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please? bosodeniro@gmail.com - 2018-06-22 01:29 -0700
    Re: What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please? D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-22 12:38 +0000
      Re: What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please? D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-22 13:19 +0000
        Re: What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-22 07:03 -0700

#494002 — What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please?

First appeared as a Playboy Sci-Fi story circa 60s 70s 80s about a desperate gambler panhandling for the only currency available in a future Berkeley where passing palms across each other passes on short debit and credit transactions of time by young students, street people, and the down and out in a dispassionate last attempt to give a guy a dimes worth of time —— i tried to look it up but couldn't find it, anybody recognize or know it, Thanks.

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#494006

bosodeniro@gmail.com wrote:
> First appeared as a Playboy Sci-Fi story circa 60s 70s 80s about a desperate
> gambler panhandling for the only currency available in a future Berkeley where
> passing palms across each other passes on short debit and credit transactions
> of time by young students, street people, and the down and out in a dispassionate
> last attempt to give a guy a dimes worth of time - i tried to look it up but
> couldn't find it, anybody recognize or know it, Thanks.

According to a website that offers up the story for free, _Playboy_ 
published "Time is Money" (Falk) in its December 1975 issue:

http://mandrake-comics.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-is-money-short-story-by-lee-falk.html

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Thank you,

-- 
Don

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#494008

D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
> bosodeniro@gmail.com wrote:
>> First appeared as a Playboy Sci-Fi story circa 60s 70s 80s about a desperate
>> gambler panhandling for the only currency available in a future Berkeley where
>> passing palms across each other passes on short debit and credit transactions
>> of time by young students, street people, and the down and out in a dispassionate
>> last attempt to give a guy a dimes worth of time - i tried to look it up but
>> couldn't find it, anybody recognize or know it, Thanks.
>
> According to a website that offers up the story for free, _Playboy_
> published "Time is Money" (Falk) in its December 1975 issue:
>
> http://mandrake-comics.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-is-money-short-story-by-lee-falk.html

Ahasuerus, it looks to me like this story may be missing from isfdb.org.
    A "Lee Falk" isfdb author stub [1] shows that it's an alternate name 
for Basil Copper. [2] But there is no "Time is Money" story listed under
Basil Copper. 
    Your criteria for a "verified" status is unknown to me, but here's
a couple of websites that pitch _Playboy_ product and mention the story:

https://insideplayboymagazine.com/magazine/december-1975-playboy-magazine/
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/playboy75.html  

Note.

1. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?204890
2. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10314

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Thank you,

-- 
Don

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#494012

On Friday, June 22, 2018 at 9:19:29 AM UTC-4, D B Davis wrote:

>     A "Lee Falk" isfdb author stub [1] shows that it's an alternate name 
> for Basil Copper. [2] But there is no "Time is Money" story listed under
> Basil Copper. 

Considering the "Mandrake" reference, this would be the Lee Falk in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Falk

Falk not only created "Mandrake the Magician," but "The Phantom,"
as newspaper comic strips.  I grew up reading both.

I have no info on pseudonyms Falk may have used for prose fiction.

Kevin R

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