Something for Nothing (book)

Waking up one morning, Joe Collins unexpectedly finds in his room a cube with the inscription “Class A Recycler”. After some experimentation, he came to the conclusion that this was what he had always dreamed of - the executor of desires. And here Collins is accepted to satisfy his ever-increasing needs: he orders palaces and oil wells, money and cars, herds of pedigree cattle and ballet troupes. And one day he carelessly, to all material benefits, asks for immortality. And suddenly he learns that the "utilizer" is just a credit machine, moving services in time and space. But sooner or later you have to pay for everything. However, he still gets something for nothing: namely, immortality - in order to work out a debt in marble quarries for several thousand years.

• According to the story in 1996, the short film The Utilizer[1] was shot. This is the only director's special effects director's work Craig Barron}. The film received the award of the Chicago International Film Festival for special effects, but the general public has never been shown.[2]
• In Russia from 2015 they shot their own film of the same name.[3][4] The film tells about police detective Max Flamberck, who is looking for missing citizens.

• Encyclopedia for Children. World Literature. T. 2 / chapters. ed. V. Volodin - M: Avanta +, 2001. - P. 568.

• information in the Science Fiction Lab