wws@siemens.UUCP (William W Smith) (08/09/84)
About 10 years ago I had a paperback science fiction short story anthology. I lost it and don't remember the title or any information about the book except for a couple of stories that I remembered, and then, I don't remember the titles of the stories. One of the stories was a kind of a mystery. It started out with a police investigation of a man in an apartment building dead with the window of his apartment broken with all the glass knocked inside the room. Then the scene flashed back and we saw the man alive. He had an elaborate doll house that he imagined the dolls were really alive. I won't spoil the story any more than to say that the man was God to the people in his doll house. Another story that I remember involved a transport mechanism to an alternate universe. The alternate universe was based on Mother Goose tales in all their gory details. It resembled a war zone only worse, and I think the people in the story ended up getting stuck their. A third story involved a space ship for faster-than-light travel. The traveler went faster and faster until he left our universe. In the process he was magnified trillions of times until he was bigger than the universe. What he found was that our galaxy was just an atom on a slide in some scientist's laboratory in an even bigger universe. The traveler ends up talking to the scientist and I don't remember much more about this story. I was pretty young when I read these stories and would like to re-read them to see how distorted my memories of them are. If you know the name of the anthology and its publisher, I would appreciate you sending by e-mail enough information for me to get a copy of the book. (I won't be reading news for a while, so if you post a response, I would appreciate being mailed a copy of the posting as well.) Bill Smith ihnp4!mhuxi!princeton!siemens!wws