From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!houca!lime!we13!otuxa!nwuxc!inuxc!burton Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Name that story Article-I.D.: inuxc.221 Posted: Thu Jul 8 15:10:15 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 02:35:39 1982 I need a story (and author) identified. A long while ago, I read a story (part of a collection by different authors), which had the following background: Mankind discovered that men could not withstand the psychological pressures of space travel. To this end, a special device was developed to be used by pilots, which shut off most of their sensory inputs. The process was called 'going under the wire'. These men were especially adapted to this condition, carrying scratchpads on their chest, with a pencil point in one of their fingers to write on the pad, since the 'wire' also shut off their hearing and speech abilities. I can't remember much else about the story, but this seems to be a pretty unique premise, so hopefully someone out there can identify it for me. I also seem to remember that the story was not complete; it was as if a small section of a novel, or longer story, had been taken out to be used in the anthology. Can anyone help identify the story, and confirm if it is a novel? You should probably try to mail the answer directly to me, since we have been having trouble lately with our links to the net. Doug Burton inuxc!burton (...mhtsa!inuxc ihnss!inuxc nwuxc!inuxc )