@RUTGERS.ARPA,@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA:DBarker.SiteSA@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (04/25/85)
cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA,@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA:DBarker.SiteSA@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA seismo!columbia!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA,@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA:DBarker.SiteSA@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA From: Deryk Barker <DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA> Sorry barmar - you is wrong. The story about the man who lives the same day over and over is definitely by Philip Dick - although I too cannot remember the title. Hogan's "THRICE upon a time" features one of his (typically) smart-arsed geniuses who decides to alter the past (twice - hence the thrice in the title) to save the world once from a new disease and once from miniature black holes gnawing away at the centre of the earth. The Philip Dick novel in which people particpate as Barbie Dolls (Perkie Pat) is "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" one of Dick's very finest novels. The people are colonists on Mars and escape into their "layouts" (models of reality) via an hallucinagenic drug called Chew-Z (catchy huh?) The eponymous Mr. Eldritch returns from some alien planet bearing a rival drug - Can-D. Gradually (slight spoiler) it becomes apparanet that once you've taken Can-D you NEVER know whether you're back to reality or still hallucinating. And you keep coming up against Mr. E in various disguises. He has, however, three physically distinguishing features (the stigmata of the title) which always give him away - if you're on the lookout - trouble is - can't remember what they are. This is a GREAT novel - I thoroughly recommend it to all those who haven't read it - nothing to do with reliving the same day tho' (sorry moderator).