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Subject: John Scherer's story query
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 14:43:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 14:43:21 1983
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-"rich uncle willing a time-travel belt"- sounds like David Gerrold's THE MAN
WHO FOLDED HIMSELF, book-length (barely) novel published in 1973 and for some
reason nominated for a Hugo. (It predates Varley's Eight Worlds and Bradley's
more [daring] Darkover novels, so may have been considered controversial enough
to be good.) As I recall, he winds up obtaining some isolated location and
meeting him/herself in the hundreds. (How he avoids being bored with the nth
repetition of a conversation wasn't covered.) Am not sure whether the
justification for the [female editions] was alternate worlds or simply the
cumulative effect of his meddling with the time stream.