Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse@uw-beaver.arpa From: mouse@uw-beaver.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Story title request Message-ID: <2469@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:04:33 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2469 Posted: Tue Jul 2 06:04:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:24:50 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 From: utcsri!mcgill-vision!mcgill-vision!mouse@uw-beaver.arpa (der Mouse) > A friend of mine is looking for a book title. Perhaps you can help: > > Thought I'd ask all you SciFi [sic] nuts about a book I've been trying to > (re)find for years. I could swear the word 'belt' or 'timebelt' was > used someplace in the title. The story is about a guy who got a belt > for his birthday from a relative. The belt is supposed to allow him > to travel in time... While putting on the belt and doubtfully > looking it over, he gets a knock on his door. He opens the door to > find 'himself' - who tells him that he'll understand later, comes in > and grabs something and leaves. So the guy decides to set the belt > back a few hours and try it out... he ends up back in time by a few > hours. Somewhere along the line he must go back to his apartment. > He comes up to the door, hears someone inside, and it dawns on him. > etc.... This sounds an awful lot like "The Man who Folded Himself", by David Gerrold (I don't know whether this is the same David Gerrold who did "The Trouble with Tribbles" for Star Trek). My copy is a continent away (I didn't care much for it after the first couple of readings), so I can't tell much more about it. der Mouse {ihnp4,decvax,ubc-vision}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse