Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_avrd From: ins_avrd@jhunix.UUCP (Victoria Rosly D'ull) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Lost story/novel Message-ID: <1121@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:02:48 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1121 Posted: Thu Nov 7 16:02:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:45:26 EST References: <636@lasspvax.UUCP> <338@ukc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 32 > > 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 I think you may be looking for THE WORLD INSIDE by Robert Silverberg. --meep!