Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: another book - exploring the idea of - (nf) Message-ID: <2271@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 04:05:12 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2271 Posted: Fri Jan 13 04:05:12 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jan-84 03:04:42 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 59 #R:psddevl:-13300:fortune:9900026:000:918 fortune!rpw3 Jan 12 21:53:00 1984 [** Warning: **spoiler** on second page **] The all-time best trickiest punchiest time-travel paradox meet-yourself tale has to be Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies..." (which I think is one of the stories tucked away in the back of the short novel "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"). Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 [*************spoiler*********************] Actually, I started to give the whole thing away at first, when I wrote: The all-time best trickiest punchiest time-travel paradox meet-yourself screw-yourself sex-change tale... Now that I've blown it, I might as well give you the last line in the story: [**** next page is a REAL spoiler ***] "I know where I come from, but what about all you zombies..." (arrgggh!)