Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!carol@mit-cipg@mit-mc From: carol%mit-cipg@mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: none Message-ID: <12520@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 10:35:54 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12520 Posted: Mon Oct 1 10:35:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:33:52 EDT Lines: 14 Hasn't anyone else answered Chris Beach's story request yet? The story is called, "Absent Thee From Felicity Awhile..." by Somtow Sucharitkul. It's in The 1982 Annual World's Best SF, ed. by Donald Wollheim), and is copyrighted by Davis Publications, 1981, which means it was in either IASFM or Amazing, I think. Chris has the plot slightly wrong: the aliens are using the Earth's culture as a kind of Junior High School Social Studies project for its children. Also, the Earth people can communicate to the aliens by touching conveniently placed poles, and have the hours every morning between 6 AM and 8 AM free to do as they please (since the protagonist wakes up at 11AM on the day in question, it takes him awhile to discover this). Also, the girl that dies in a train wreck isn't an old girlfriend, she's someone he meets during a 'free time' exploration.