Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!muffy From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF on controlling Time Message-ID: <667@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:26:01 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.667 Posted: Fri Jun 28 02:26:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:38:21 EDT References: <5267@ukc.UUCP> <399@moncol.UUCP> <15309@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 24 In article <15309@watmath.UUCP> jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) writes: > >The Pluterday concept is carried one step further in Dayworld, Phillip >Jose Farmer's newest novel (only out in hard cover as far as I know). >The premise is that overpopulation has grown so rampant that the >people of earth have been split into seven parts, each of which are >allowed out only one day of the week. (The rest of the time they're >in suspended animation.) Thus there are Tuesday people, Wednesday >people, and so on. There are also criminals called Daybreakers who >don't go into suspended animation when they're supposed to. Not >the usual sort of thing you think of for "time control", but still >a controlled time situation. > > Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo This may be a new novel, but I'm sure I read a short story a long time ago with exactly this situation. I don't remember much, but it's a man (say, a Wednesday person) who sees a picture of this woman who uses the same room on her day (say, Tuesday) and decides he's madly in love and wants to change days to meet her. Anyone remember this? Muffy