Hunh. A few years ago I read a Frankenstein story in which the monster was smaller than normal human rather than larger, and that led to a different ending of the story. But that’s not the one you’re looking for, probably.
I think that one might have been written by @CalMeacham …
Ah, yes, here it is.
Thanks!
Okay, this one is Fantasy. Set in england, there is a dragon and a smart talking wolf, who calls himself an “english wolf”. Its is a series.
Sounds vaguely like The Dragon and the George - I seem to recall Aragh referring to himself as an “English wolf” from time to time.
Yep, thanks!
I have a story that I’d like some help trying to identify. I had thought it was a Philip K. Dick story, but I’ve taken a look at his books, and I’m not sure that the plot matches up with any of his works.
I read it sometime in the 1980s, so it can’t be any newer than that; I’m pretty sure that I read it in a standalone novel/novella book, rather than in an anthology or in a science fiction magazine.
The story was about a man who lived a simple life, in a small, bucolic town. One of his favorite pastimes was a puzzle in the daily newspaper, in which one tried to identify in which boxes (in a grid or something) “aliens” would appear.
It turned out that the man was living in a constructed, controlled community, sort of like in “The Truman Show.” He had some sort of telepathic/precognitive ability, and was being used by the U.S. military to predict where enemy missiles were being targeted (so that they could be shot down, I think). His accuracy apparently depended on him not knowing what he was actually trying to predict, and the government took great pains to not let him suspect anything, though, as I recall it, he did start to suspect that his life, and the puzzles, were not what they appeared to be.
It is Philip.
Time Out of Joint
Hot dang, thank you!
I am trying to remember the title of a book. It was a guy who has a heart attack and is dying, but then ends up back in college living his previous life. He keeps living, then at the same age as before, he has another heart attack and ends back up in college. Repeat, repeat. Events ensue.
Additional details to major plot points (but I don’t give away the ending.)
In one repeat, he kills Lee Harvey Oswald, hoping to save JFK (didn’t work, some other nutjob killed JFK).
In one of the repeats he meets a woman undergoing the same thing, and they agree to try to meet up in each new iteration. They put ads in the newspaper asking if people “remember” certain events that have not yet happened, hoping to find additional loopers, and find only one other guy, who turns out to be a super nut case.
Does that ring any bells?
Replay, by Ken Grimwood.
49 seconds. I’m impressed. Thank you.
Darn it. I blinked
Sounds like a good story to look up.
It is.
Replay is a terrific novel. I read it when it was new, in the 1980s - and I’m surprised there isn’t on more lists of the best SF novels.
Maybe you’ll answer it next time around.
^ Ha!
It is a good novel - I recently re-read it. However, he doesn’t kill Oswald. He types and sends the Secret Service a letter threatening JFK, signing it as if it was from Oswald. Oswald is arrested but some other nobody shoots and kills the President in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, anyway.
This is a RAH short story. Or maybe a novelette. IIRC it was in a thinish PB with two others. Anyway, some dude with the past wakes up, and in a society where nearly everyone carries a gun. If no gun, a brassard, unless you are police and you get both- except our hero who also gets both- then people try to kill him.
Beyond This Horizon?