Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+2.11; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!scifi From: scifi@ukc.UUCP (I.L.Sewell) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Lost story/novel Message-ID: <338@ukc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 11:47:07 EST Article-I.D.: ukc.338 Posted: Sat Nov 2 11:47:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 20:04:54 EST References: <636@lasspvax.UUCP> Reply-To: scifi@eagle.UUCP IAN SEWELL Distribution: net Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK Lines: 25 Keywords: Grovel grovel Summary: Please help me fimd this story/novel This is a request for help about a story (novel?) that is really annoying me because i can't remember much about it and i think i should because it was really good.(the old brain aint what it used to be) Anyhow ,recently bought a copy of High Rise by J.G.Ballard thinking that it was the story/novel that i was thinking about. But after reading the first few chapters i realised that i had read this before and it wasn't the story/novel that i wanted to read. After racking my brains for a few days i have decided to ask the net to see if anyone can remember the story/novel and who wrote it. What i can remember is this:all the action takes place in these giant blocks of flats (see why i got it confused with High Rise) whish are self contained buildings. The block is broken up into groups of floors named after cities-the lowest being Warsaw i think (another block which some minor charachters are to move too was to name tho floors after famous men),with the poorest workers at the bottom of the block and the richest at the top. This is just about all i can remember apart from the fact that it was common for you to leave your room door open as at night people swapped partners quite frequently. I know this is very scanty information but any info on the story/novel would be appreciated if only to put my mind at rest. cheers IAN SEWELL