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From: mouse@uw-beaver.arpa
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Subject: Re:  Story title request
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:04:33 EDT
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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

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