Pay the door

New frontiers in securing the bag

DALL-E 2 prompt: “A cowboy on horseback overlooks a futuristic city in the middle of the desert”

In Philip K. Dick’s 1969 sci-fi novel Ubik, one of the casual bits of dystopian world-building he deploys is the revelation that the front door of the protagonist’s apartment has a coin slot. In order to leave his own home and go about his day, Joe Chip needs…